Word: waiting
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Visiting the sites of recent tragedy, one is always struck by how life goes on. In Mumbai, train passengers wait in crowds at the station, couples walk hand-in-hand on Juhu Beach, rickshaws honk incessantly and refuse to acknowledge lane indicators, customers haggle with street vendors, and the smell of spices and dust fills the air. In a word, all is normal.Reading the Mumbai papers, however, one gets an entirely different impression. The press has filled in the gaps in the city’s understanding of its recent attacks with a narrative of imminent danger and Pakistani aggression...
Rough Ride. FlightStats.com just released its travel report card for the holidays, showing that nearly 8,800 flights were canceled from Dec. 18-28, 2008. With bad weather and capacity cuts, some passengers had to wait two to three days to get on the next available flight. For those who did manage to take off, less than half their flights arrived on time. Good thing Santa wasn't relying on frequent-flyer miles to deliver his goodies...
Those who can't wait to see 2008 come to a close will have to endure an extra second - literally. On Dec. 31, just before 7 p.m. Eastern time, a leap second will be added to atomic clocks around the world to realign Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the international standard for atomic clocks, with Earth's rotational period. The reason for the intermittent mismatch between these two measurements lies not with the clocks but with the movement of the planet, which is decelerating at an average rate of two milliseconds...
...year college with a long tradition of Harvard transfers. And spurred by this same caution about residential constraints, the admissions office took a conservative approach to applicants for the class of 2012, announcing the lowest admissions rate in recent memory, before admitting an unprecedented 200 students off the wait list when its acceptance rate dropped slightly...
...candidate, he called for a new peace process but was short on the details. "A U.S. Administration has to put its weight behind a process, recognizing that it's not going to happen immediately," he said during a visit to Israel last summer. "That's why I will not wait until a few years into my term or my second term ... to get the process moving." That was meant to be a dig at the Bush Administration, which left it too late to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now the Obama Administration risks being too late even before...