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...proposal to slow the pace of global warming by limiting the amount of carbon dioxide that electrical utilities release into the atmosphere--was no rogue operation by an underground cell of Al Gore sympathizers. It was a campaign promise made last fall by Bush, one designed to persuade environmentally conscious swing voters that he was greener than Gore...
...Robert's mother Florence, 78, is fighting to keep him alive. After several legal battles, the two will next face each other in California's Supreme Court, where the case could produce a landmark decision about whether the extremely incapacitated--some doctors use the term "minimally conscious"--can be denied medical care. Dr. Vincent Fortanasce, a leading Los Angeles neurologist who examined Wendland, believes that the ruling could affect hundreds of thousands of brain- injured people who need feeding tubes to survive...
...case, the execution is so triumphantly free and direct, so conscious of the weight, texture and reality of things, that this small painting not only coheres but expands almost to monumental scale in your mind's eye. In it, as in so many of the pictures in this exquisite show, one sees why Manet inspired such passionate attachment among the younger Impressionists--and why his art, so vastly influential and yet impossible to imitate, remains a touchstone of freshness and originality long after his death...
...Harvard, who is 6'11", doesn't consider me tall.) Very few women are in my direct line of vision, so when I see one, there's a little nod that's automatically given, a kind of "Hey, you're like me" nod of approval. It's barely conscious but definitely there, an automatic circle of understanding. The understanding is so great that a network of more than 100 Tall Clubs has popped up across the country and Europe, all under the banner of Tall Clubs International, where tall people of the world are currently exploring tall dating opportunities while...
...what I mean, just look at some vice presidential quotes from the past. Most are real zingers. For example, Thomas Marshall said, "The vice president is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything going on about him." LBJ apparently agreed. "It's like being naked in the middle of a blizzard with no one to even offer you a match to keep you warm--that's the vice presidency," he said. Though many accounts confirm that LBJ frequently walked around the White...