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...This just can't be a grab bag of spending desires that have been unfulfilled for the last several years," Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, warned reporters in a corridor outside the Senate chamber. "It must create jobs...
...Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would allow the opening of a "humanitarian corridor" to bring supplies to the besieged 1.5 million Gazans trapped by the conflict and called for all fighting to be suspended for three hours on a daily basis to allow residents to stock up on necessities. "While we welcome the humanitarian corridor," says Gunness, the UNRWA spokesman, "this cannot compromise the need for an immediate cease-fire...
...three-hour cessation of fighting today was the first of what both Israeli and Hamas officials said would be a parenthesis of calm every 24 or 48 hours. That pause is intended to create a humanitarian corridor allowing aid workers to get badly needed food, water and medical assistance to Gaza's bloodied and traumatized population. According to U.N. officials in Gaza, the area's 1 million residents have been without electricity since the Israeli assault to silence Hamas missile firings began; 75% of those inhabitants are deprived of running water, and many can't risk going out for provisions...
...Aboard. To accommodate the hordes headed to D.C. for Inauguration Day, Amtrak will add extra trains and cars on its Northeast Corridor route. Maryland and Virginia commuter-train routes are also being called into service: MARC, a Baltimore-to-D.C. commuter line, will provide reservations-only service on Jan. 20, with schedules coordinated with Inaugural activities. VRE, with trains that connect Fredricksburg, Va., and D.C., will maintain its regular schedule but require reservations. (See 10 things to do in Washington...
...anything close to tipsy, but it was a couple of minis more than any crew had ever taken into space before, and when you're piloting a ship that is screaming to Earth at 25,000 miles per hour and you have to hit a narrow atmospheric corridor just 2.5 degrees wide in order to survive the fireball of reentry, a cautious commander would also consider it a couple of minis too many. So Borman ordered his crewmates, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, to keep the brandy stowed...