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...tryouts, in which men are required to do 25 pull-ups, and women eight, in 30 sec., eliminates up to 90% of all challengers. The field is further winnowed by subsequent requirements: running the 40-yd. dash in under 6 sec., winning a one-on-one game of tug-of-war, and playing a round of Powerball, a brutal version...
...schools in poorer ones. Since the 1970s, 10 states have decided -- or been forced by courts -- to overhaul their methods of funding some of their school districts. In the process, tempers are flaring in a manner reminiscent of the disagreements that once raged over school busing. "It is a tug-of-war between equity and excellence," says Tony Rollins, executive director of the Colorado Education Association, a state teachers' union that has been active in the funding wars...
...scientists believe it is the Big Bang theory itself that is wrong. Instead of a universe that exploded into being 20 billion years ago and grew by way of gravity's tug, they postulate a cosmos trillions of years old and shaped not by gravity but by electricity and magnetism. Their evidence comes mainly from lab experiments showing that electromagnetic forces can pull hot gases into distinct structures. Most astrophysicists dismiss this idea, but alternative schemes offered by mainstream thinkers are almost as wild. Many groups are exploring the idea that the Big Bang created strange energy formations, largely undetectable...
...combatants in this latest version of the West's long tug-of-war over water are more numerous and clamorous than ever. The four Upper Basin states have always regarded the three in the Lower Basin with a gimlet eye. The upper states have never used all the water allotted to them; the surplus could be, and often was, picked up by the lower states -- mostly California. No one minded as long as the river seemed inexhaustible; now the upper states fret that the lower states have grown accustomed to -- and have prospered on -- more than their fair share. Across...
...Partly because of the strength of the Arab hereditary monarchies or the military regimes or one-party regimes that have replaced them, partly the extraordinary range of internal conflicts within the region, partly the tug of Islamic fundamentalism. But even in a country like Iran, you see a remarkable range of disagreement that has internalized pluralism. There are patterns emerging that create a kind of rough balance between more or less secular forces, even within the Islamic framework of the country. You are finding a similar evolution in Jordan...