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...Albert Einstein was struggling to wrest from nature what would turn out to be his crowning achievement, perhaps the most beautiful theory in all of science. Ten years earlier, he had come up with the special theory of relativity, which said that time and space were each relative for observers moving at different constant velocities. Now he was trying to generalize the theory by conceiving of gravity as a curving of the fabric of something he called space-time...
...been aiming to lead the Commons - though not quite yet. The source stressed the importance of Straw's new job, which includes cleaning up the election-funding system and finishing reform of the House of Lords. But many insiders viewed the demotion as a move by Blair to wrest even more power away from the Foreign Office, especially over Europe policy. This chimes with suspicions that Blair is trying to create a de facto but supercharged Prime Minister's department, allowing him a freer hand in areas important to his legacy. But another reason for Blair to bump Straw, says...
...bend to his will. The DNI's office felt the CIA was slow to lend a hand when the DNI was setting up his office. The FBI complained, as it often does, about being underbudgeted. And Negroponte had yet to prove to skeptics in Congress that he could wrest control of the Pentagon's massive intelligence assets from Rumsfeld and put them in service not just for military commanders but also for the entire intelligence community...
...case / the more I want to punch your face.” The spare but anthemic “Free Radicals” tells of an imagined conversation with a suicide bomber. And the rollicking first single, “The W.A.N.D.,” angrily implores listeners to wrest power away from Bush by using magic wands. As always, the Lips give voice to a great deal of philosophical anxiety. On gloomy “The Sound Of Failure,” Coyne takes on Gwen Stefani and Britney Spears for their don’t-worry-be-happy...
...lines, learned that two other planes had torpedoed into the World Trade Center. Realizing their doom, the passengers also found a mission. They stormed the hijackers, rammed their way into the cockpit and, to keep the plane from being one more missile aimed at a U.S. landmark, tried to wrest command...