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Attention college shoppers. You too, Mom and Dad. The days of using cinder blocks to loft the bed, remnant carpeting to cover the floor and the oldest sheets in the linen closet to adorn the dorm-room bunk have gone the way of the slide rule. This year the university set is expected to have spent $26 billion on back-to-college wares, including clothes, books, stereos and computers. But fully $1 out of every $10 spent--$2.6 billion--went into decorating the dorm. Today's college send-offs, who have watched their parents refinance and remodel their homes...
...magnetic field? Earth's magnetic field is believed to be generated by the movement of molten iron in the core. But Mercury is so much smaller than Earth that its core should have solidified long ago. MESSENGER will try to determine whether the field is just a dying remnant or is still being driven by a molten core...
...civil disobedience. The Green leader's legal advisors point out that the fine he faces for disobeying the prosecutor's warning comes to €4.50 - the modern equivalent of the 30 franc penalty set for such infractions in a 1946 revision of the Civil Code. That's one remnant of the past that advocates of gay marriage are not keen to see change...
...militant New Democrat. He abandoned his support for free trade. He now opposes the New Democrat impulse to reform traditional liberal programs like old-age entitlements, public education (Dean is even skeptical about charter schools, a New Dem staple) and affirmative action. Indeed, about the only Clintonian remnant that Dean supports is fiscal conservatism...
According to a U.S. official in Iraq, Ansar is transforming itself from a dispersed remnant into reconstituted cells operating locally under the guidance of leaders who escaped to Europe. Few fighters are as qualified to carry out the recent spate of suicide-bomb attacks in Iraq as the men trained in Ansar's camps. Before the war, according to a Kurdish intelligence operative who recently briefed a team of Pentagon officials, Ansar soldiers training to be suicide bombers were given elaborate mock funerals to prepare them mentally for their martyrdom. After recently interrogating two captured fighters, the Kurd believes there...