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...first 12 hours went smoothly, and the excitement of driving a Carrera 4 in the land of high speed limits and no cops was enough to keep me alert. But as night fell and a heavy fog rolled in, my body started calling out for rest. I was grateful to switch with my co-driver, Linda, and to get a few hours' rest, but woke abruptly when Linda opened the window to keep herself awake...
...themselves as threatened by an "Evil Empire," and it's almost unthinkable that the elected representatives of either party would have tolerated a spectacle as demeaning as last year's impeachment proceedings in an era when the president was viewed as commander in chief of a nation on constant alert. The end of the Cold War has left the U.S. uncertain of its interests and role in a wider world, and under those circumstances the nation's politicians have been inclined to hack away at the authority not only of Bill Clinton himself, but of the office he occupies. Presidential...
...Next, the offer: "First, we should complete hand counts already begun in Palm Beach County, Dade County and Broward County to determine the true intentions of the voters based on an objective evaluation of their ballots." (Gore misstatement alert: Palm Beach County has not yet begun to count, and Dade County has actually decided not to. Broward, of course, had also decided not to but was forced to reconsider by the Democrats.) The results of those recounts would be added to final tally - and Gore drops all his lawsuits and both sides abide by the result...
Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...
...Around 4 p.m., Democratic National Committee officials put in an urgent call to TeleQuest, a Texas-based telemarketing firm, asking it to call thousands of Palm Beach voters to alert them to the complications on the ballot. Two hours later the company's phone clerks began making the first of some 5,000 calls. A TeleQuest spokesman said afterward almost half the people contacted thought they might have made a mistake when they voted...