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...didn't get his ambitious reshaping of the tax code, but he got a tax cut to run on. (In 1999 he got another--the two biggest in Texas history, as he never tires of saying.) Bush describes his salvaging of the '97 tax cut as a bold stroke, the triumph of his Trojan horse strategy. Laney says, "He took a defeat and turned it into pretty good spin...
...bottom line, according to the authors: drinking 48 oz. of unfiltered coffee a day may carry a 10% increase in risk for heart attack or stroke. An incidental but equally important finding was that levels of vitamin B-6 decreased...
...Grand Slam events in a single year, a feat matched by only four players since; in Scranton, Pa. One of the sport's greatest figures, the tall, redheaded Budge pioneered the power game that prevails today, and is considered the first to have used the backhand as an attack stroke...
Biegluk also swam the breast stroke in the 400 medley relay, which he won along with juniors Michael Im and Jamey Waters and freshman Kyle Egan. The medley team of co-captain Ben Rosen, sophomore Ryan Egan and freshmen Mike Gentilucci and Dan Shevchik finished second...
...down version of Unix, the standard operating system used in large mainframe computers. Linux caught on fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary, fix its bugs. MORE...