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Against all odds, my science Core requirement, Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” is my favorite class this semester. I swore off amino acids and lipids in high school after a nightmarish AP Chemistry experience, but I had one core class left so I picked the one with the best CUE rating and thought I would sit through it quietly...
...Bush's veto was upheld by a vote of 273-156, 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed. After the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swore to resend a bill that includes an identical expansion back to Bush within the next two weeks. She refused to say if the measure would be completely identical, "as long as the bottom line that 10 million children are covered, that is not negotiable," Pelosi said. "This isn't an issue any more, it's a value in our country from which the President appears to be isolated," she told reporters...
...speak), and when I pulled my mother’s 1975 paperback edition of “The Portrait of a Lady” off the shelf, I knew I had found it. The language was pleasantly buffered, and as crunchy and satisfying as a piece of toast. I swore off coffee and spent the next two or three weeks chewing my way, at a thoughtful, decaffeinated pace, through the book. I’ve gone back to the brew by now—both literally and metaphorically—but I did it knowing that my literary antacid...
...harrowing and, at 15 hours, an endurance contest. But it makes vivid a tale worth retelling. Burns, who briefly swore off war movies after The Civil War, says he's just decided to make a film about Vietnam, although not until its vets are several years older. For now, The War makes the anguish and loss as real as if they were happening today. Which, of course, they...
...both sides. Sattar himself seemed to be taking it very hard when I was with him. A notorious showboat and media hound, Sattar waved away TIME's photographer at one point, saying he was too depressed to pose for pictures. The sheik vowed to fight on nonetheless. Indeed, he swore revenge. For a time Sattar seemed to be making good on his pledge as tribal fighters loyal to him killed off and drove out insurgents from Ramadi, where al-Qaeda in Iraq had established a headquarters of sorts in the rubble of a city shattered by years of intermittent fighting...