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...Neither of the two bills emanated from the White House. Homeland Security came from congressional Democrats; Intelligence Reform from the 9/11 commission. Both ideas sprouted during election seasons; both were popular. Bush opposed the creation of a Department of Homeland Security before he favored it-and he has been unwilling to do the head cracking necessary to ensure that his friend, Secretary Tom Ridge, has the authority to do his job. Bush was dragged into supporting intelligence reform by John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately-without any input from, or negotiation with...
...most tracks on Autoditacker strike you as a unified whole. Only upon closer listening do their constituent parts become apparent. Samples and drum loops build on each other to form an almost seamless wall of sound. Rarely does one sample call attention to itself-except when the composition calls for it-and rarely does any sound seems superfluous. At times, Mouse on Mars samples live acoustic drums, but most of the time they use synthesized sounds percussively, a technique that makes their songs quite arresting. The 12 purely instrumental tracks on Autoditacker often revolve around a repeating rhythm loop that...
...hadn't had so much trouble opening the shoebox-size package that arrived in the mail last Monday, she would now be dead. She survives only because she carried the box in to her boss, the organization's president, Gilbert Murray, and left it with him. He started to unwrap it-and the package blew up in his hands. The blast, which killed Murray,47, instantly, was powerful enough to knock two doors off their hinges and blow gashes into the ceiling panels. And it was loud enough to be heard for blocks around, sending hundreds of workers into...
...bail out. They don't realize that they can still work back to romance,'' says Clark, who suffered through five years of misery after discovering her husband Pat had had an affair. Then she and Pat attended a Retrouvaille weekend and learned how to forgive, how to get over it-and how to fight. "Everyone I knew who had the same problem was divorced,'' says Joyce of the crisis in her marriage. "I wanted to find one person who survived and was in good shape. Now we work in the movement because somebody out there is waiting...
...secondary grades. Bonnie Armbruster, a researcher at the University of Illinois Center for the Study of Reading, last month ran an experiment in which she gave a group of adults 20 paragraphs from sixth-grade texts. "Their instructions," says Armbruster, "were to underline the main idea-if they could find it-and if they couldn't, then to write one of their own." The grownups flunked on both counts: the content was so disjointed they could not pick out a main idea. "They couldn't believe these excerpts were from real textbooks," Armbruster adds...