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...defense. The simultaneous decision to take the Iraq situation to the United Nations was also a campaign ploy-polls showed the vast majority of voters favored this course-and a chimera. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld were opposed to the move, and Rumsfeld pretty much ignored it: he proceeded full-speed ahead, deploying troops for a late-winter invasion...
...While better protection is the obvious answer, skaters want thin sneaker soles so they can feel their board, and skiers are reluctant to relinquish any flexibility. Enter snowboard-loving British inventors Richard Palmer and Phil Green, both 39, and their new material, d3o, which can perform a few high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock to become soft and elastic once again. "It's a protective system that changes shape with you, so it doesn't restrict...
...after contesting a judge's ruling that he had misspelled a word. "He walked off, then came back and said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I spelled that word correctly,'" recalls his mother Edna. Sure enough, a tape recording proved him right. Bernanke's push for clarity influenced Greenspan to speed up the release of the minutes of Fed meetings...
...greatest postwork fear: "that my brain will die." Not a chance. Each activity has taught her something new, and she has been able to connect the dots between them. Once every month she's on call at the Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) program, ready to speed to the side of a rape or abuse victim before the professionals arrive. Leveraging her training for SAVI, she created a program on child abuse at the Family Center in Manhattan for grandmothers raising grandchildren alone...
...century form of how we do films,” he sighs. “I’m hoping for the next generation—digital technology is a part of their life, they’ve grown up with an iPod.”McCallum, hoping to speed that process along, actually speaks very little about the current DVD release of “Episode III.” Instead, he envisions future “Star Wars” DVDs that could literally change the way students learn about film.He doesn’t want the standard...