Word: resting
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...pros, and plenty of low profiles. Of course, most Cabinet members slip into obscurity by the time the new term gets underway, but Bush seems determined to avoid any controversies he can in the meantime. Next week: labor secretary, energy secretary, transportation secretary, UN representative, and most of the rest of the White House staff...
...young man he suffered deep loss. His mother's wrenching early death from colon cancer shaped the rest of his life. He was 20 when she died in February 1943 at the age of 48. Three days later, a private in the Army, he boarded a train for Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and the war in Europe. The sense of shock and separation never left him. He survived World War II, as he had survived the Depression and the alienation of his youth, but the only world that had ever mattered to him - the secure home his parents had vouchsafed...
...Bush has all-but-promised to tip his hat to bipartisanship; and thus must find at least one Democrat before he fills the rest - Transportation, Labor, Education, Interior, Veterans and Energy, UN Representative and the Office of the US Trade Representative. But hardly anyone expects him to find more than...
...reading your story on Amtrak's new Acela train [BUSINESS, Dec. 4], I sadly noted continued ignorance about why America lags behind the rest of the world in developing high-speed trains. The explanation lies in Washington's lack of a balanced transportation policy. Europe and Japan place intercity rail on an even playing field with other transportation modes for federal assistance. Washington, however, treats Amtrak like a bastard child that receives billions in "subsidies" while aviation and highways receive blessed federal "investment." Amtrak needs the same financial commitment enjoyed by the airlines and highways. DONALD SHAW Bloomfield, Conn...
...type of pollution known as fine particulate matter results, on average, in one more death a day. The fine particles, each less than one-fifth the width of a human hair, come from gasoline engines and power plants. Researchers urge the government to crack down and call on the rest of us to do our part. For starters: take mass transit, not your...