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A new magnetic levitation train shuttles between Pudong International Airport in Shanghai and the city's downtown area, accelerating to about 240 m.p.h.

In the second part, the rupture progresses southwestward starting with a slow speed of about 1.5 km/s and accelerating to about 3.0 km/s.

But then the pace accelerated to about a half-degree per year – nearly 10 times faster.

They are supplied with protons accelerated to about 750 keV by a Cockcroft-Walton generator.

Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said on Monday that he expected job gains to accelerate to about 200,000 a month.

"Then, in the last 25 years, the rate of warming further accelerated, to about three times that rate of increase.

Economic growth will accelerate to about 3percentt before easing in the first quarter of 2007, the bank said in its quarterly inflation report.

Globally, the ocean rose about eight inches in the last century, and the rate seems to have accelerated to about a foot a century.

The Bank of England governor, Mervyn A. King, has warned that inflation could accelerate to about 5 percent in the short term before cooling off again.

Instead, the rate accelerated to about 11% a year, compared with an average of 9.5% in the first half of the decade.

In the final six months of this year -- with inventories shrinking, tax rebate checks going out in the mail and lower interest rates encouraging consumers and businesses to spend money -- growth will accelerate to about 2.5percentt, according to this forecast.