Word: pressing
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Thurmont, Md. - Here at the press filing center for the Camp David II Mideast peace talks, a TV reporter was lamenting to a White House press officer: "I've got to go on the air soon and I have nothing to report." The reaction of this news blackout enforcer: "Yesss...
...degrees]F when a man is standing, can nearly match his body temperature of 98.6[degrees]F after just two hours behind the wheel. Sperm die after a few days at normal body temperature. To blame are the warm interiors of most cars and the way most men press their thighs together when driving. Men can try to cool themselves with air-circulating beaded car seats, air conditioning and nonrestrictive clothing, such as boxer shorts. But the most reliable way to lower the temperature is to take frequent cooling breaks when driving for long periods...
...wrongdoing remain unproved, officials from the California-based Independent Institute, one of the groups in question, say news stories documenting their links to Microsoft may have been drawn from records kept on office laptops that went missing last June, begging this question: Were the tips Oracle leaked to the press based on data stolen by I.G.I...
...That declaration infuriated Mbeki's government, which saw it as a political attack and reportedly put pressure on South African participants to cancel a press conference scheduled for Monday to discuss its contents. And in Sunday's speech, Mbeki dashed expectations that he'd back away from his earlier pronouncements. Referring to the AIDS phenomenon, Mbeki said "it seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus." That left conference-goers disappointed and alarmed, as it was left to maverick populist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to speak the simple truths about South Africa's AIDS crisis during...
...would say no," Davis, after some diplomatic hemming and hawing earlier in the day, told the Associated Press. "I still believe the best thing I could for the country is to elect Al Gore and the best way to elect Al Gore is to carry California and remain his chief spokesman," Davis said...