Word: weekends
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...wary of a cranky electorate - breathed a sigh of relief; by the time we set out on our summer vacations, analysts assured us, gas prices will have settled into a far more affordable groove. But here we are, just a few days before the start of the Memorial Day weekend, paying at least $1.50 per gallon, up from $1.40 at the beginning of the month and within a penny of the year-to-date high recorded in March. Not exactly what anyone had hoped...
Almost 30 years ago, I drove my 12-year-old son to a weekend camping trip with his Boy Scout troop. We arrived at 8 in the evening. The boys were in their tents, and the scoutmaster, assistant scoutmaster and two father chaperones were in a camper trailer drinking whiskey sours; the scoutmaster was pretty well in the bag. I reluctantly left my son there and worried all weekend about his being supervised by that group of "morally straight" men. I would have been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale...
...being championed throughout the Arab world as the first army ever to liberate Arab territory from Israel by force of arms, but nowhere more so than among the Palestinian youths venting their frustration with stones and gasoline bombs. In response to their, and Hezbollah?s efforts, Barak at the weekend recalled his envoys from talks in Sweden designed to break the logjam in the peace process with the Palestinians and postponed a visit to Washington for talks with President Clinton...
...Joint weekend field project: Gore and Bush collaborate on a remake of "The Blair Witch Project." Each brings his own compass. Who makes it home? One? Both? Neither...
...there was ever a drug in need of a public relations overhaul, it?s thalidomide. And now, thanks to recommendations aired this weekend at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, the long-reviled pharmaceutical could be headed back into the medical spotlight. Researchers testing thalidomide's efficacy as a cancer-fighting agent have reaffirmed the drug's potency, urging its continued use in conjunction with chemotherapy to combat a wide range of cancers. While it's not clear exactly how thalidomide works against cancer, scientists theorize the drug may boost immune system functioning or attack cancerous cells...