Drafting is an important technique in road racing. Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty explained, The bicyclist, as he moves through the air, produces a turbulent wake behind himself.
Bower was the 15th inmate executed in the United States this year, and more than half of those executions took place in Texas. On Wednesday, the state of Texas plans to do something it has been trying to do for decades: Execute Lester Bower. Bower, 67, has spent nearly half of his life on death row.
Comparative incarceration. At mid-year 2000, Texas incarcerated 163,503 of its citizens in prisons or jails, or 779 per 100,000 people. Texas was second only to California (164,490) in the number of its citizens behind bars, and second only to Louisiana (793 per 100,000) in the portion of its citizens incarcerated.Data table, [PDF] scroll to Table 2) By mid-year 2003, Texas's population had grown to be the largest state prison population, although the federal system is now even larger. Texas's incarceration rate rose to 803 per 100,000 residents, but Louisiana's still outranks Texas.