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...closer to the end of this problem than we are to the beginning.' HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary, on the country's economic troubles as the credit crisis enters its ninth month...
...problem is that no one knows how long the incubation period for facial tumor disease is. But every week that passes without Cedric falling sick makes Woods sleep better: "I'm quite confident now that he's immune." Hamish McCallum, the University of Tasmania ecologist coordinating the scientific effort to save the species, is hopeful too, but "we're not in any position, on the basis of one individual, to say we know what's going on," he says. "It's too early to unfurl the 'mission accomplished' banner." If Cedric or any of the Special Six do prove resistant...
Obama argued that Rush had failed in leadership and vision. But his delivery was stiff and professorial--"more Harvard than Chicago," said an adviser who had watched Obama put a church audience to sleep. The problem was deeper than speaking style. Obama was a cultural outsider. Rush attacked his Ivy League education, using the E word for the first time. "He went to Harvard and became an educated fool," the Congressman told the Chicago Reader. "We're not impressed with these folks with these Eastern-élite degrees." Not growing up on the South Side raised other suspicions about Obama...
...they go by so fast you don't have time to roll your eyes. Frey has a history of having a little too much fun with facts, among other controlled substances. As a writer of fiction, he may finally have found a job where that's not a problem...
...longer created with robust careers in mind; their life goal is a couple of quick wins in Triple Crown races, followed by retirement to a stud farm. "Modern commercial breeders produce horses in order to sell them, and if those horses are unsound, they become somebody else's problem," Beyer wrote for the Washington Post. "Because buyers want horses with speed, breeders have filled the thoroughbred species with the genes of fast but unsound horses...