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...Republican rockers, talking for eight uninterrupted minutes, several times working himself into a screaming frenzy, once about colonial British taxes. Nuge also burped twice. Amid this rant, Nuge mentioned - three times - that unlike the Kerry-loving, dope-smoking hippie rockers on tour, he believes in living by the Ten Commandments. Asked to name them, he said, "I couldn't rip them off right now. I'm sure I live them on a daily basis." When pressed, he named five before paraphrasing the rest: "THOU SHALT BARBECUE ON AN HOURLY BASIS! THOU SHALL SHOOT DEER DIRECTLY IN THE VITALS TO CAUSE...
...kind that everybody wants to pay $12--the adult admission fee at the Freedom Center--to hear. Whites may shy away from displays that implicitly indict them. Even some blacks are ambivalent about how to treat the knowledge that their ancestors were once bought and sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor re-enactment of a 1773 estate auction that included the sale of slaves. The hope may have been that the performance would help Williamsburg fight off criticism that it tended to sugarcoat the rough realities of colonial history...
...experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe of the African Lion Working Group, was a paltry...
...events that can rise above all the clutter, a 17-day Super Bowl in search of iconic moments. As a result, the handful of Olympic hopefuls who get singled out for their potential star power have started demanding more cash than they did a few quadrenniums ago. "Ten times as much," says Brandon Steiner, who negotiates endorsement deals for FORTUNE 500 companies. "An athlete that got $50,000 15 years ago gets...
...Ten years from now, I do not want to live in a world of random violence and endless war. If you continue pursuing your present policies in the “war on terror,” I fear for the future. That is why next week I will be in New York City, protesting your party’s nominating convention...