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There is no way of knowing yet: an entire winter of record-shattering cold, let alone a single week, might be a meaningless blip in the overall scheme of long-term climate trends. In fact, last week's cold wave was caused by a phenomenon that is by no means rare. The jet stream, a stratospheric wind that governs the movement of air over North America, dipped temporarily south of its usual course. As it did so, the stream pulled along a vast high-pressure system from Siberia and the Arctic Ocean...
Chavez, Rollins and the Rejected Vote Scheme...
...Nurse Richard Angelo of Lindenhurst is arrested for administering lethal doses of muscle relaxant to patients, as part of a scheme to make himself look like a hero by reviving them...
...pick Fred Goldberg, the IRS chief under Bush, as their executive director. Goldberg is an advocate of shifting federal taxes away from income to consumption, as are -- in a general way -- Danforth and Kerrey. This worries Clinton economic advisers. Having been singed already this year by a VAT scheme, they don't want the President to be associated with any similar proposals -- at least not during his first term -- from a panel that he created...
...NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly bribed to help book the box on a shuttle mission. According to the Houston Chronicle, a manager at NASA's Life Sciences Directorate and an employee at GB Tech, a Martin Marietta subcontractor, have been implicated in the scheme. Coming on top of NASA's other misfortunes in recent years, the disclosures were disheartening. "It gives morale a good, solid kick in the stomach," says Larry Friesen, a former engineer for Lockheed, a NASA contractor...