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...this for Florida's dim-witted election system: it makes the hot-button issue in the race for Governor--education--more urgent. During the state's primary balloting last week, especially in the populous southern counties of Miami-Dade and Broward, poll workers couldn't even boot up many of the new touch-screen voting machines, part of a $30 million upgrade undertaken after Florida's 2000 presidential recount debacle. Because of the voting fiasco, it took all of last week for state officials to confirm that Tampa attorney Bill McBride had narrowly, and stunningly, upset former U.S. Attorney General...
...Pettyjohn did. He gently turned the plane north and slowly began climbing. He hit the red panic button near his left knee, jettisoning his two missiles and external fuel tanks to reduce drag and let his plane fly more easily. It was nearly seven minutes before Pettyjohn finally cleared the mountains that mark the border. In Turkey he glided to an unpowered landing, then rolled to a stop with 1,000 ft. to spare...
With your hand on the button. As the Crusaders chipped away at the Crimson’s lead late in the second half, a technical malfunction with the scoreboard caused the seconds to tick off the game clock even when play was stopped. “The clock won’t stop,” complained the clock officials to Harvard SID and press box steward John Veneziano. “What’s wrong with that?” Veneziano joked. (The clock was eventually fixed...
...moment the Senate Majority leader stands firmly behind a popular president asking for a resolution on Iraq, the next he's lambasting the same president for his "atrocious" record on economic policy. In other words, he stands exactly where the American people stand on not one, but two hot-button issues. And for this neat trick, he is our Person of the Week...
...video, about 176 by 144 dots per inch, was a little fuzzy, but it was still fun seeing my pal as we talked about what we did over the weekend. One cool feature is a button labeled DETAIL/MOTION that let us opt for a clearer picture that got refreshed less frequently or a more fluid one that got a lot more blurry. We both opted for detail but noticed a time lag between our movements and their appearance onscreen. We liked the picture-in-picture feature that let each of us see what we looked like in a small image...