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...Florida to its own devices, would be a slightly stronger one. But either would only require the Bush camp to continue the fight in the Florida courts, which it's doing anyway. Both of those would puff Gore's chest out a bit, but not change much once the dust settled...
...victory. At this point, what's it worth anyway? "Hollow," says a senior Democrat. The presidency is hard enough without winning it accidentally. With a government so divided, there can be no faking comity; either all sides truly work together, or they sit in their tall cherrywood seats gathering dust until a new army takes their place...
...Yellow Oval Room, that one of the most fateful discoveries in U.S. history was confirmed. There on Dec. 7, 1848, Secretary of War William Marcy put a heavily laden tea caddy on the table and stepped back for Polk's scrutiny. The caddy contained 230 oz. of gold dust and nuggets from California, proof of the wild and heady stories that had seeped back East...
...said. "If you go to sudden death, that's wow-wee! That's shakalakalaka." By the end of this week, the Florida votes may all be counted and recounted, but the court rulings may still be pending, and the election of the President may still depend on how the dust settles in the Sunshine State. Shakalakalaka would be the word...
UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez, meanwhile, has focused her attention on the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, far closer than Djorgovski's gamma-ray bursts but hundreds of times farther away than Marcy's planets. Shrouded in thick clouds of dust, the galactic core is invisible to ordinary light detectors. But among the Keck's suite of specialized instruments is an electronic camera sensitive to infrared light--the same kind of invisible light that your remote control uses to communicate with your TV. Infrared light of some wavelengths can penetrate dust as though it weren't there, giving...