Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Number of days he spent on the campaign trail...
...Number of miles logged...
...Average number of supporters per rally, according to the campaign...
...WHAT ARE CHENEY'S CURRENT CHOLESTEROL LEVELS? His doctors say he has a long history of high cholesterol that "has been vigorously and successfully treated with medication." But they don't provide any figures. Dr. Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins Medical School cites a number of studies--one of which was published just three weeks ago--showing that bypass patients who lower their LDL (bad cholesterol) levels to 100 mg/dl or less reduce their likelihood of needing additional invasive treatment...
...expected would be a post-Big Bang cosmic slowdown. The idea was to compare the expansion rate today with the rate billions of years ago by gauging the speeds of exploding stars called supernovas--Riess's grad-school specialty. But in January 1998, Riess saw something weird: the number he was getting for the slowdown kept coming out negative. The universe wasn't slowing down; it was speeding up! "This seemed to imply," he says, "that some force is acting against gravity." Crazy as antigravity sounds, the idea was originally suggested by Einstein as a kind...