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...each year that they almost have a quorum in the stadium. Last month, Speaker Newt Gingrich flew to London first class with his wife ($20,268), staying at Claridge's ($12,225) and eating well (close to $700). Atlantic Richfield--the oil company with dreams of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--paid for everything. "Every American," Gingrich said, "should make this trip...
Driving is a curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from the world even as it carries him through it. The sensation of personal power is intoxicating. Sealed in your little pod, you control the climate with the touch of a button, from Arctic tundra to equatorial tropic. The cabin is virtually soundproof. Your "pilot's chair" has more positions than a Barcalounger. You can't listen to that old Sammy Davis Jr. tape at home because your kids will think you're a dweeb, but in the car, the audience roars as you belt...
...forces conspiring against us converge in mid-to-late-October. Their ranks include the abusive parental pair of Mother Nature and Father Time. Nature unleashes her arctic winds upon us, and Time steals our sunlight. Also implicated in the plot are our esteemed professors--who break fundamental laws of mathematics with the administration of multiple midterms--and our own sense of self-doubt...
...Larry Lawrence was dug up from Arlington National Cemetery after no one could come up with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into the icy Arctic Ocean when his ship was torpedoed. It turned out, however, that he was at Wilbur Wright Junior College in Chicago at the time. If the question of wealthy contributors' buying burial plots in Arlington had not arisen, he and his secret could very well have rested in peace...
...University voted against or abstained in the votes on 21 environmental reform plans. The reforms would have included researching the elimination of nuclear power plants, stopping oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and requiring reporting on carbon dioxide emissions...