He had just demonstrated how to control slides on an ice block the size of a basketball court in the center of the track.
The third rail, of course, is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is untouchable, like the electric rail often found in the center of a railroad track.
Teams of astronomers will set up camp along the center line of the eclipse track in Guadeloupe, Curacao, Aruba, and Venezuela.
I'm speaking with Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of hate groups in the U.S., and Randy Blazak, an associate professor at Portland State University, who also studies hate groups.
The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center says the track of the storm has shifted slightly to the west, making it a bit less likely the state will get hurricane-force gusts, but will still see high winds and a storm surge from high waves.
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Markoff recounted the efforts of one Tsutomu Shimomura of the San Diego Supercomputer Center in California to track down the perpetrator of a computer break-in.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
The Pew Research Center estimates that nearly 70% of adult Americans now track some aspect of their health or that of a loved one, whether using an old-fashioned notebook or a cutting-edge gizmo.
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The number of individual records breached in 2010 so far has in fact fallen by more than 90% compared to 2009, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, although the number of breaches is still on track to rise for the year.
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The problem that should keep CEOs up at night is that most IT departments have trouble keeping track of the assets in a physical data center.
It's a model where the center that serves as your medical home might help you keep track of your prescriptions, or get the referrals you need, or work with you to develop a plan of care that ensures your providers are working together to keep you healthy.
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But the connection from Hoboken down to the World Trade Center tunnels is still severed, as the railroad awaits delivery of a replacement track switch.
The Center for Security Policy believes that the Congress should carefully examine the true track record of the Bush Administration with respect to its China sanctions policy.
However, Oliva said the base's emergency center was standing down, as the storm's track seemed to put Parris Island out of harm's way.
The FEMA Administrator, Craig Fugate, and National Hurricane Center Director, Dr. Rick Knabb, briefed the President on the projected track and timing of the storm as well as steps being taken by the Administration to support potentially impacted states.
These include: Ambassador John Negroponte , the Director of National Intelligence, Tom Fingar , his deputy for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Ambassador Kenneth Brill , Director of the National Counter-Proliferation Center - a critically important job for which he seems particularly ill-suited by temperament and past track record of reflexive acquiescence to various instances of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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