He saw those changes then take place with incredible speed when the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain was pulled asunder.
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Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?
It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is based on one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
The project began to lose speed with the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the Western world and took away Kahn's fortune.
The decline of Wall Street, meanwhile, has helped speed things along.
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Working out of the University of California, San Diego, Smarr is constructing a campus full of high-speed wireless connections, supercomputers, nanotechnology labs and wall-size flat-panel screens.
The EN-V runs on battery power and plugs into a wall -- giving it a max speed of about 30 miles per hour and a range of about 30 miles.
Then we have France, a sexy-looking motorbike with oodles of speed and zip which gets sent spinning into the tyre wall by its heavyweight rivals.
In an earlier emergency statement to the Commons, Mr Blunkett had conceded that the speed with which the intruders were able to scale the wall was "of concern".
Mr Clarkson was instructed to drive a Renault Magnum lorry through a wall at 56mph - the vehicle's maximum legal speed - at a test track near Milton Keynes.
Wall Street players have lately expressed concern that too much regulation of high-speed trading could crimp markets.
Like other Wall Street CEOs, Cayne sat by as Bear Stearns plowed ahead at full speed with no radar in the middle of the night in a sea dotted with icebergs.
It is as if the speed and magnitude of the changes to East Germans' lives after the fall of the Berlin Wall left some East Berliners longing for the certainties of the old days.
The action on Wall Street Monday was in the commodity markets, where a selloff got underway early and picked up speed.
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