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...cold and somber day. Nearly a quarter of the labor force was out of work. Banks had shut their doors. Farms were going belly up. Breadlines snaked through city streets. Standing jut jawed at the lectern before the Capitol's assembled throng on his first Inauguration Day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt countered the sense of helplessness, telling the shaken nation, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He then outlined a plan of economic revolution: bank and stock-market reforms, public-works programs, and emergency relief for farms. But the day's solemnity made room for celebration...
...didn't go to bed that night, rushing from the Soviet embassy to Capitol Hill to the White House. Those at the center of the power game knew their lives had changed. At the Naval Research Laboratory, which was in charge of America's entry in the space race, Project Vanguard, the engineers bathed the roof in searchlights so they could adjust their radio dishes to pick up the defiant beep from Sputnik, the 184-lb. intruder that had not only humiliated the U.S. but ratcheted up the cold war. The Soviet rockets obviously were bigger and better than...
...said he is hopeful that the report—with the support of high profile Capitol Hill—will prompt change and urged President Bush to take notice of the issue...
Aristide said that poverty has prevented Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, from effectively combating the spread of AIDS. Currently, 300,000 Haitians suffer from the disease, and 60 percent of the population outside the capitol of Port au Prince lacks access to health care...
...report does not offer a specific proposals for government assistance, but the airlines have been making the case in private meetings on Capitol Hill and even with the White House. TIME has learned that last Thursday several airline CEOs met with the key members of the Bush Administration economic team, including Treasury Secretary John Snow and Office of Management and Budget chief Mitch Daniels, in the Roosevelt Room to lay out the heavy tax burden they face and the $4 billion in government-ordered security mandates they have had to pick up. According to those familiar with the conversations...