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...learning those lessons the hard way. Daughter MARGARET SALINGER'S Dream Catcher, the rare tell-all that does tell a lot, is expected to sell briskly when it hits stores on Wednesday. Among the Daddy Dearest revelations: J.D. experimented with Scientology, advised her to abort her baby, had a brief marriage to a Nazi and is now profoundly deaf. Margaret, 44, told the New York Times she's still close to her father, though "he probably hates my guts too, I would say operatically." Yes, probably...
...might guess that Ware, 32, has father issues. You wouldn't be far wrong. He began the book, six years in the making, in part to "work out stuff"--namely, his relationship to his own father, whom he never met until a brief, awkward reunion just before his dad died, when Ware was more than halfway through the book. "I was resistant to meeting him, and I was trying to figure out why," says Ware. Did he? "No! That's the rotten part of it. I feel even more confused than ever...
Last week, he embarked on what was supposed to be a brief visit to Nigeria. Right before he left, the White House added a little side-trip to Tanzania (a mere five hours' flight farther east) to help out good friend Nelson Mandela with the tricky Burundian peace talks. In mid-journey it announced that on the way back he'd pop in on Cairo, Egypt, for some consultations with President Mubarak about the Middle East peace talks...
...brief hiatus from the water on our third day of travel as Tipper and I, again joined by Joe and Hadassah Lieberman, boarded campaign buses and traversed the Hawkeye State. We stopped at local firehouses, diners, and parks, where I had the pleasure of introducing my running mate and his wife to some old friends from our caucus days...
There are aliens living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Technically, the otherworldly creatures aren't all alive; many are just bacterial microfossils. They're not exactly extraterrestrials either, having spent their brief lives entirely on Earth. But if the tiny microbes prove anything, it's that living organisms can make their homes in the most unlikely places. For scientists like Sherry Cady, 43, a geologist at Portland State University in Oregon, this is big news indeed...