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...MANNERS--AND, BY THE WAY, ARE THEY GETTING ANY BETTER? A lack of obsequiousness. A Hey-I'm-just-as-good-as-you quality. That's the basic idea. I've been attacking American manners for 25 years, and I succeeded too well. Americans concluded that we're naturally crude. The truth is that America invented the idea of etiquette as equality. That principle has been a major influence in the world. Particularly in countries that want to be like...
...prices spiked to $40 per bbl., creating anxiety among consumers and a recession for then President George Bush. Now his son is taking steps to make sure history does not repeat itself. The Bush Administration has been quietly pumping as much as 150,000 bbl. of crude oil a day this fall into the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The unheralded buildup has brought emergency stockpiles of petroleum to their highest level in history: nearly 600 million barrels. That ensures that in the event of war, President Bush can order the release of more than 4 million...
...they did during the Gulf War, by releasing part of their industry and government petroleum stockpiles. Even the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is doing its part: heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia have opened the taps, helping America fill the reserve's salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana with crude. U.S. oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen 15% since late September, to around $26.50 per bbl. --By Adam Zagorin/Washington
...establishment. The U.S. Pharmacopeia, a doctors' listing of remedies begun in 1820, first included cannabis in 1870. The Pharmacopeia didn't drop pot until its 1942 edition, the first published after cannabis was outlawed in 1937. Eventually most physicians began to view the drug as little more than a crude intoxicant. They tended to favor new-fashioned drugs that were refined by pharmaceutical firms into pure chemicals. Raw marijuana contains some 400 compounds...
...rest of the album. “Act Like You Don’t Care” is a tender ballad that closes the album on a welcome soothing note. One notable exception to the good thing The Dubnicks have going on this album, however, is the feverish and crude “Worn Out,” about the rantings of a bitter...