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What had happened, according to Sandusky County elections director Barb Tuckerman, was that in the chaos of election night, ballots had been piled on the floor and probably run through electric scanners twice. The AP quotes her as saying of election night, “It was totally hectic...
...Dawson ’07 broke the Ivy League record for rushing yards in a season against a limp Yalie defensive line. This is the first time since 1922 that Yale’s graduating class has not seen a victory over Harvard at least once. Makes you think twice about Nietszhe’s whole ubermenchen thing...
...earliest and proceed most rapidly in the Arctic. But even the experts were stunned at the results of a study released last week. After four years of intensive research by more than 250 scientists, a prestigious multinational body called the Arctic Council reported that the region has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe over the past 50 years. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk by as much as 20%, snow cover has diminished on land, and the permafrost underlying the tundra has become less stable...
Despite that aggressiveness, China's overseas investments supply just 5% of imports--the rest is purchased on the open market. Mainland oil companies have twice been foiled in their efforts to buy stakes in fields in Kazakhstan, and they haven't secured any other significant drilling rights in Central Asia or the Middle East. The fields that Chinese companies have bought into are already mature, and many experts feel they have overpaid. "China has been singularly unsuccessful in its overseas ventures," says Jim Brock, a Beijing-based energy consultant. "They're trying to learn in a decade what...
...commit even more horrible acts. If the pro-democracy forces and the West want to avoid a second Vietnam in Iraq, they need to use determination and tactics like massive aerial bombings of terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they might think twice about their actions. WERNER MEYER Düsseldorf, Germany