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...Sunnis oppose the constitution, but can only defeat it if two-thirds of voters in any three provinces vote against it. Sunni leaders are confident they can get the numbers in two?Anbar and Salah ad Din?but their hopes for the third, Baghdad, rest on Muqtada al-Sadr and his two million followers in Sadr City. The A.M.S.'s al-Qubaisi says his group is already working with al-Sadr to persuade Shi'ites to vote against the constitution. The relationships forged during last week's tragedy and the goodwill generated by the Sunnis of Adhamiya could yet yield...
...Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after 9 p.m. in order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born. Engineers had been calculating fatigue life the wrong way for 60 years. Push your hand against a tabletop. Force is the amount of effort you exert; stress is how that force is distributed across your palm. Push your hand...
Some of the efforts made at first seemed oddly ad hoc. Two days after the storm, the Department of Health and Human Services e-mailed cruise lines to ask whether they might help with rescue and relief efforts. Industry officials had no idea where their ships would anchor, how passengers would board or where the boats would get food and potable water. It would have been a reasonable idea if it had been vetted months in advance...
...MIKE: All the players are very upset by a few tournament directors pushing to have doubles matches shortened with no ad scoring and shorter sets. We met twice with the players in Cincinnati because we all feel that something has to be done. At Cincy, they were selling t-shirts with "Doubles Yes" on the front and "ATP No" on the back. Several coaches, players and agents were also in the room-including famed agent Pat Jensen and Tennis Channel founder and tournament director Steve Bellamy. I won't go into the discussions at this time but look...
Autopsies are typically performed in private, and on dead people, so the public vivisection this summer of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has at times been a pretty engrossing spectacle. Some opponents got sloppy in their handling of his views; NARAL Pro-Choice America had to pull an ad after linking Roberts to abortion-clinic bombers. Some supporters discovered on closer examination that maybe he was a different species of conservative than they had thought, particularly when they learned he had moonlighted on behalf of a gay-rights group. Overall the very deliberate examination of his every argument and memo...