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A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted:

Ms. Rosenbury defended counting guest speakers as part-time faculty, saying it fell within A.B.A. standards because they were “practicing lawyers, judges and colloquium speakers” whose participation was integral to courses.

"We use the variation in photon counts over different illumination points across the surface," says Tafone.

Sometimes in circumstances like this, that counts for double.

In India, if you ask a pedestrian how many obstacles they've encountered on a footpath, they may not be able to count them - but they'll certainly tell you that most footpaths are in poor condition.