Touch-screen voting systems, which look like automated teller machines, are easy to use, but they make recounts next to impossible--because, unlike ATMs, they produce no independent paper trail.
But if and when Scotland became independent, the paper suggests that a lot of those advantages would evaporate.
Staying with the Independent, the paper gives over its front page and several inside pages to honour Britain's volunteers.
As a freshman, instead of trying to join the Harvard Crimson, Abramson wrote profiles and theatre reviews for the weekly campus paper, the Independent.
In June, Ofcom - the UK's independent telecommunications regulator - published a paper designed to promote discussion on network traffic management.
In the late 1980s Mr Summers had co-written an influential academic paper that showed that independent central banks in rich countries worked better than politicised ones.
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Their ostensible compromise: to form an independent committee that appoints key positions at the paper in order to maintain its editorial integrity.
Newspapers, Mr Murdoch implies, must learn to understand their role as providers of news independent of the old medium of distribution, the paper.
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It decided to have an independent oversight panel reinvestigate the incident next month, the paper said, citing panel spokesman Wang Yong.
Literacy among Americans also improved, leading to greater paper sales that, in turn, led to financially independent papers.
The government says that it will announce its transitional proposals in a white paper, but they will include the establishment of an independent commission to nominate and vet new life peers.
The paper notes that there would ultimately be a written constitution in an independent Scotland but that a constitutional platform, covering such matters as finance, the law and international agreements, would be needed in the interim to enable Holyrood to operate independently.
For this reason, ad hoc responses will still be critical, such as last week's federal guarantees for money-market funds, Fed loans to banks to buy asset-backed commercial paper and, on Sunday, approval of the remaining two big independent investment banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, to become Fed-regulated bank holding-companies whose investment bank units can now borrow from the Fed on the same terms as other banks.
It said it would maintain the Express as a broad-based national paper but "draw new readers from among 18 to 34, intelligent independent-minded females".
Independent Al-Watan ridicules Islamists' proclamations that the new constitution would bring prosperity to Egypt: the paper's main headline says stability will only be achieved once there are enough dollars.
Calculated by an independent body, the Institute for Scientific Information, the impact of a journal is the number of times an average paper in that journal is cited elsewhere in a given year.
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