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...Ground operations - the doughnut-fueled armies of volunteers who knock on doors and man the phone banks - are the trench warfare of political campaigns. These are the people charged with finding and persuading voters who might support their candidate, and then making sure they actually show up at the polls. A good ground operation might mean just an additional percentage point or two on Election Day, but in a close race, that margin could easily be the difference between winning and losing. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe calls his ground operation the "field goal unit...
...like defecting. It's not like you have to cross a bridge in a trench coat at midnight. This dichotomy between Hollywood and everywhere else seems to be something created by people who are watching, not by people who are doing...
...degrees or -7 degrees C, though the wind can make it feel worse on the open snow. The sprawling cold room is also where the main drilling at NEEM will be done. That won't take place until next summer, but the scientists have already dug out a deep trench where the main drill will bore to the bottom of the ice. Here the cores will be pure ice, inside which gas will be trapped in tiny bubbles - air from over 100,000 years ago. Pulling up those cores will take three years, longer to fully analyze the ancient gases...
...Beyond those concerns, Meyer, who says he learned of the plan just hours before it was announced, seems stung by the Department of Health's parachuting into his trench. "This was presented to us fait accompli," he says. "It was a slap in the face." He also suspects Bronx residents will bristle at the selection of their borough as the first mass-testing site. "There's still a tremendous amount of distrust in minority communities about people from outside coming in and saying, 'This is what's best for you,'" he says. Still, some 50 community-based organizations...
...COLUMBIA, MO.A classic blazer or jacket would be a wonderful purchase. I have my 10-essentials list for getting your wardrobe right. It's the blazer, the classic white shirt, a skirt, a day dress, a basic black dress, black pants, jeans, a sweater of some kind and a trench coat-you can wear it to the grocery store or the opera. The last one is a sweat-suit alternative-something that you feel good in and look good in and that you can go out and walk...