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...Young, a lawyer in a high-powered international-law firm, recalls a day in school in lily-white McLean, Va., in the early '60s. "They had a film on communism, and we were all sitting in our chairs watching it, and the communist happened to be a Chinese-looking person, and at the end of the film, it said if you see anyone who looks suspicious, please call your FBI bureau. And the lights came on, and all of a sudden I noticed that all my classmates had moved their chairs away from me." She had suddenly become the wily...
Sometimes all this money was delivered privately. Sometimes it was delivered at public fund raisers held along the Strip. In that November 1997 fund raiser, gaming executives paid at least $1,000 a person to rub shoulders with Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, in an event that gaming officials characterized as a "tremendous success." Democrats received similar treatment in July 1999 when House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Ways and Means ranking member Charles Rangel of New York attended a Las Vegas luncheon...
This year roughly 125,000 americans--half of them children and adolescents--will be overcome by a sudden, abnormal discharge of electrical currents in the brain marking their first seizure. A seizure can be pretty scary, especially when the person starts twitching uncontrollably or, in rare cases, stops breathing altogether. Seizures in children under age 5, however, are usually the result of high fevers--typically 103[degrees]F or higher--and most kids grow out of them...
Stay by the person's side until the seizure is over, then call for immediate medical assistance. As with most illnesses, the sooner the cause is diagnosed and treated, the better the chances of a positive long-term outcome...
Americans have always divided themselves into camps--proslavery and antislavery, say, or "Wet" and "Dry." But the computer modem revolutionizes controversy. Every man a king. Every person a moral philosopher (or blowhard) of instantaneous global reach. The written word, once a priestly prerogative, is now power in the fingers of the wired masses...