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space: Stiff challenge to spacetime PHILIP BALL Magnetic fields may smooth out bent space.© NASA Einstein's theory of relativity tells us that gravity bends space. Now a physicist at the University of Portsmouth, UK, has worked out that magnetic fields may smooth bent space1, casting doubt on the growth spurt that is proposed to have built the early Universe. Magnetic fields can stiffen space, says Christos Tsagas, just as embedded metal wires can stiffen rubber. The lines of the magnetic field — the invisible lines of force that are revealed by iron filings around a bar magnet — push back ...

Tuesday, 15 May, 2001, 15:46 GMT 16:46 UK Mystery force tugs distant probes The Pioneer craft are heading towards the stars By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse An unexplained force is pulling on distant spacecraft. Researchers have come to this conclusion after a thorough analysis of the deep-space probes' trajectories. We've been working on this problem for several years, and we have accounted for everything we could think of Dr John Anderson, Nasa It could be just a tiny unnoticed effect in the spacecraft themselves, but scientists warn it could also be the first hint that ...

Home Search   How Just A Few Genes Can Still Generate Many ProteinsDNA's protein-building instructions may be able to combine in an unexpected way, increasing the number of possible proteins that can be generated from a given number of genes, according to a report in this week's Nature. The new finding may have important implications for scientists puzzled by last week's announcement that an initial survey of the human genetic code had found an unexpectedly small number of genes. Traditional scientific thinking supposes that instructions for building a protein are encoded on one strand of the double-stranded DNA molecule. ...

POTOMAC WATCH Hung Out to Dry For some, Bush loyalty is a one-way street. BY PAUL A. GIGOT Friday, January 12, 2001 12:01 a.m. EST Everyone says George W. Bush prizes loyalty above all else. But the question after this week is whether he values loyalty down the chain of command as much as he does loyalty up. Just ask Linda Chavez and Frank Keating. Ms. Chavez was thrown over the side as labor secretary this week, and perhaps her departure was inevitable. She broke a prime Bush tenet in not telling her vetters about her immigrant houseguest before ...

Tuesday, December 5, 2000 By Catherine Donaldson-Evans   Opening a new front in the religion-in-schools war, two Cornell legal scholars are advocating the removal of abstinence-based sex education from public schools on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment clause requiring separation of church and state. Constitutional law professor Gary Simson and Cornell Law graduate Erika Sussman say the government is promoting a religious agenda — specifically one backed by fundamentalist Christians — when it allows public schools to teach kids that forgoing sex before marriage is the only way to go. "The conformity to the Religious Right position is ...

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I’m tired of hearing the stupid "10,000 votes have not been counted" mantra. The fact is they have been counted. They have been examined numerous times. How the heck do these ballots get to the disputed pile unless they have been examined and found to be unclear in some fashion or other? You could see in the recounting, the culling of the ballots into different piles. The final step of the process occurs when another group of eyes examines these ballots to divine the intent of the voter. I submit that if the rules established prior to the recounts were ...

Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide -- The Washington Times  Front Page  Nation/Politics  Election 2000  World  Commentary  Opinion/Editorial  Metropolitan  Sports  Business  Technology  Entertainment  Culture  Weather  Business Times  Family Times  Auto Weekend  Home Guide  Arts  Access Magazine  Nat'l Weekly Edition  Classifieds  Business Directory  Int'l Special Reports  Advertiser Index November 28, 2000 Voter error invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Visit our Election 2000 pagefor daily election news and analysis      The uncounted ballots in Florida — which have played a key role in Democratic challenges — are just a drop in the bucket of ballots ...

I propose that the freepers select our own slate of electors. Two hundred and seventy one in number to represent our choice in people who we would trust to select our president. I would choose: Katherine Harris Judge Burton Jim Robinson John Robinson Bob Crawford Judge Rosenburg I would start with these

In all crises there arise people who cause the pain and suffering, the villians. Sometimes they are nameless. Sometimes they are anonymous. Those that can be named need to be recognized and spanked. This crisis is not over, however, there are villains. My list contains at least the following: Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Joe Loserman Democrats Alan Dershowitz Al Gore Judge Lee Who are your villains?

In all "crises" there arise people to do the hard and thankless work, the heroes. Sometimes they are nameless. Sometimes they are anonymous. Those that can be named need to be recognized and thanked. This "crisis" is not over, however, there are heroes. My list contains at least the following: Katherine Harris American Servicemen/women Judge Burton The Republican whose name I don’t know on the Broward board. The one with the magnifying glass. The "mob" that would not allow the Miami-Dade board secede to the dark recesses and do their dirty deeds. Americans of Cuban ancestry in Miami-Dade county. Who ...

This is a graph of the data that troubled me the week after the election. I was studying the data in hopes of anticipating the first recount. I noticed the anomaly in Palm Beach and wondered about it. It may be a signal of voter fraud. What it shows are the votes that Bush and McCollum, the republican senatorial candidate, received in each county as a percentage of the votes cast for the top 4 presidential candidates. As the graph shows McCollum got more votes than Bush did in Palm Beach and almost as many in Broward. He received ...

Fla Supreme Court Misrule Supreme Court of Florida _____________________________________ Nos. SC00-2346, SC00-2348 & SC00-2349 ______________________________________ PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD, Petitioner, vs. KATHERINE HARRIS, etc., et al., Respondents. VOLUSIA COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD, et al., Appellants, vs. KATHERINE HARRIS, etc., et al., Appellees. FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY, Appellant, vs. KATHERINE HARRIS, etc., et al., Appellees. [November 21, 2000] ...The provisions of the Code are ambiguous in two significant areas. First, the time frame for conducting a manual recount under section 102.166(4) is in conflict with the time frame for submitting county returns under sections 102.111 and 102.112. Second, the mandatory language ...