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...defended his partial birth abortion voting record by explaining that there was no clause in the bill allowing protection of the mother’s health.There is more to a debate than what is verbally communicated. Physical communication and eloquence, are also very important. Obama spoke with a water-faucet flow, flashing his gleaming smile intermittently. McCain’s speech had the flow of a traffic jam in a snow storm, as he confused syntax and became short of breath. This stuff matters. McCain argued like he was down in the polls. On the other hand, you could almost...
...criticize the Bush Administration for demanding better results while withholding substantial aid that could help the impoverished country be more effective in the fight. "The U.S. should provide more assistance, more equipment, more training," a former senior government official tells TIME. "The assistance is like a drip from a faucet...
...speak for myself—I was such a horrible writer when I started. Yet I wanted it so badly, so I would read and write constantly. One of the ways that I think about it is if you enter an old house and you turn on a faucet, all of that sludgy orange-brown water comes out at first. But if you leave the faucet running, eventually the water starts to run clearly. That’s really part of the writing process, learning how to get to the clear water.5.FM: So are you like Plato in that...
...river houses, stories of the success of Harvard’s “Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House...
Homeowners who come to Current Energy can order an energy audit--a socket-to-faucet analysis of how to eliminate energy and water waste. After receiving the report, customers can follow as many of the recommendations as they wish, with Current Energy employees involved in the installation work--down to changing the lightbulbs. Joseph VanBlargan, a writer, secured an assessment for his Dallas home and estimates that the upgrades save him about 30% on his monthly energy bill. "I could have done it on my own, but there would have been bits and parts I would have missed," he says...