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...that is true, why go through the exercise? For one thing, social conservatives feel that passing the bill--which prohibits certain abortions after partial delivery of the fetus--will give a needed boost to Bush's conservative base. But there may be another calculation. By passing a measure that seems likely to be struck down by the current court, they are increasing pressure on the President to nominate a strongly antiabortion candidate for the next Supreme Court vacancy--particularly if it's the seat of Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority in 2000. "All it would take...
...Backroads in California--two of the oldest active-travel companies--have learned that they can snag more customers with a tour that includes evening theater trips and fine wines than if it's just about the bike. "As boomers, who make up a significant portion of the customer base, have aged and as the appeal of biking trips has broadened," says Tom Hale, founder and owner of Backroads, "the comfort level and add-ons have taken biking trips to new heights...
...didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop crashes, the whole class grinds to a halt...
...first day of my new wireless life, and I couldn't wait to get started. No more walking barefoot to the edge of the driveway to fetch a rain-soaked newspaper--and getting an acorn or two wedged between my toes. Instead I jumped onto the Web, touched base with time.com scanned a few hot blogs, checked out the competition and clicked to espn.com for box scores. All without missing a beat or a drop of breakfast cereal. What I did miss, however, was the screaming of an infant in her high chair and the smoke of a small fire...
...only some 9,000 file tax returns. "Paying corporate income tax in this country is almost voluntary," says Jeremy Carter, the top representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sri Lanka. The combination of high governmental spending on defense and the civil service along with a low revenue base meant that national debt had swelled to alarming levels by the time Wickremesinghe came into office in late 2001. Thanks in part to a drop in defense spending, he has since made significant progress in balancing the country's books, slashing the budget deficit from...