Republicans, conservatives and libertarians, who all suffered from a bad case of technological lag, have leveled the virtual playing field at the same time that social and economic conditions provide fertile grounds for anti-incumbency.

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After John returns in the evening bubbling with self-aggrandising chatter, he quickly falls prey to a ferocious case of sleep apnoea that exacerbates Charlotte's own case of jet lag and eventually leads to a series of accidental, then not so accidental, encounters with Bob in the bar.

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He notes that although a detectable tilt is caused when the temperature drops by a few degrees, that tilt is too small to explain the anomalies and, in any case, it would lag roughly 30 minutes behind the shadow (because it takes time for the ground to cool) while the experimental measurements show a change in g instantaneously during an eclipse.

ECONOMIST: Gravitational anomalies