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...Iowa and New Hampshire, the nomination could be sewn up by then." Many Republican candidates have complained bitterly that current rules are a cynical throwback to machine politics, making it all but impossible to get on the ballot without the support of the state's Republican organization. That apparatus is led by New York's Sen. Al D'Amato and Gov. George Pataki, both of whom back Bob Dole...
...back gets treated," says Michael. "It's not central to her life." She is warm and outgoing, an attentive listener. She knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security apparatus: women married to men who can't talk about their work. When Colin retired, these wives got together and threw a bash for Alma--a slumber party with no husbands allowed...
...these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan in 1943. Swimmers had been trying to figure out how to get oxygen underwater for thousands of years. Sponge divers in ancient Greece breathed from air-filled kettles; bulky-helmeted diving suits linked by hose to the surface first appeared in the 1800s. But it wasn't until...
...perilous state." The security forces are enormous, made up of the army, the regular police, the border police, the marine police, the regular presidential guard (known as Force 17), the alite praetorian guard, the civil defense force, military intelligence, general intelligence and the so-called preventive security apparatus. Suspects have been tried late at night, without the knowledge of family members or lawyers. So far, two individuals have died in jail, their bodies bearing signs of torture. Authorities have curtailed the free circulation of newspapers from time to time and detained a handful of journalists. Nevertheless, prison officials have allowed...
...digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This suggests to him that both structures -- the appendages for walking and the bony apparatus that anchors them to the spine -- are linked at some deep genetic level that is yet to be plumbed...