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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Republican nomination, vilified "Chairman McCain" for allegedly misusing his position to do favors for friends and contributors. McCain and Bush have since reconciled, and McCain has endorsed Bush and campaigned for him. But some favors are too much to ask. "We're not for sale," a source close to McCain told TIME. McCain never contacted the other networks, which refused to carry the NBC and CNN shows. After insisting for a week that he would participate only in the debates he had proposed, Bush backed down last Thursday. His campaign now says it will negotiate with Al Gore. And McCain...
...miles northwest of Vancouver, and the Alaska border--are some of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in North America. Up to three times as many live here as in all the U.S. Not only can I commune (at a safe distance) with the bears; I can get amazingly close to orcas, bald eagles, ospreys, sea otters and seals. I can even swim with the salmon, which I did on Vancouver Island on my way to Knight Inlet...
Just as supportive as the staff at Knight Inlet were those at Paradise Found Adventure Tours (www.paradisefound.bc.ca), where I swam with the salmon. The opportunity to get up close and personal with salmon was high on my agenda for this trip, because most of the animals I would see depend for their survival on these fish. As the sun set on Campbell River in Vancouver Island, I drifted with the current through clear water. Because my guide, Jamie Turko, was so determined to protect me, I could totally focus on one of nature's great mysteries: the journey of Pacific...
...White House was never again captured, although there were close calls. During the Civil War, Union forces occasionally billeted in the East Room and the grounds of the White House. Life inside the building in those years was often chaotic, with job seekers, war contractors and distraught parents allowed to crowd in to seek time with Lincoln. The public could assemble too beneath the north portico whenever startling war news, good or bad, arrived. Lincoln often used a short, candle-lighted passageway from the upstairs quarters to a window over the entrance. There he would stand and talk...
...Bush operatives could be forgiven for ignoring their own warnings that this was destined to be a close race. All through the giddy spring and summer of the Bush ascendancy, they swapped poll results like Pokemon cards. On the walls of the brown campaign cubicles at Austin headquarters were huge national maps with a wide Bush blanket of blue covering the states in which he was up. A few specks of yellow marked the toss-ups, and the Gore strongholds in red were so small they looked like squashed bugs. The heady numbers were such a point of pride...