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...think his role is most important in states where the CDA presence is not very strong," said Amanda Stitt, president of the Michigan chapter. "Pairing up weak states with strong ones is something he's already talked about...
...before he makes them, by undermining his credibility with voters. Every time Gore blasts Bush's policies, Bush wants to be able to say, "There he goes again," and have voters nod in agreement. But even as the campaign plays the character card, Bolten must protect his candidate's weak flank. Which is why the prescription-drugs speech is so important. Gore has experience on the issue going all the way back to his House days, and Bush is far less comfortable with it than he is with his signature issue of education. If the policy isn't credible, Gore...
...that might give my new friends the wrong idea. I felt even more liberated when Shaboom introduced me to an admirer of my picture. But when I asked him what exactly he liked, he said, "It's a funny face you're making." Seeing my devastation, he concocted a weak compliment--"nice growth formation of the hair"--but I was already woefully deprogramed...
...answer, it turns out, is Iris Chase Griffen--Laura's elder sister, Richard's wife, Aimee's mother. Now in her 80s, Iris realizes that she is the only person left alive who knows the circumstances behind these deaths. Having been warned by her doctor that her heart is weak, the old woman begins, reluctantly, to write down what she remembers: "After all I've done to avoid it, Iris, her mark, however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure was buried...
...coal, which overloads the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. That's why 160 countries signed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which requires industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions to an average of 5.2% below 1990 levels between the years 2008 and 2012. But even that weak treaty remains controversial, and governments have made little progress toward implementing the pact. The U.S. Senate hasn't even considered ratifying it. Opponents seize on the possibility that the warming we're seeing may not be our doing but just part of the natural variation in climate...