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...support must be drawn. There has been concern among the stakeholders that the Republicans have not been in any of the meetings thus far; one person involved in the talks said they have been invited but have declined to attend, though several participants have said they keep GOP colleagues abreast of progress. "We would hope that any process that goes forward will actually include Republicans and Democrats to get support not only of both parties but of the American people," says Dan Smith, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...NASA was actually founded in 1915 and at the time was known as the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics - or NACA. Its job was to keep the nation abreast of the latest developments in the then-nascent technology of powered flight. NACA was established with good intentions but operated mostly as a bureaucratic backwater, a government body that couldn't hope to keep up with a rapidly evolving private industry. In 1957, however, all that changed. That was the year the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the first Earth satellite - and in the process, scared the daylights out of the U.S. President...
...morning his attorney spoke from a magistrate's court in Uxbridge where he failed to block a court order for Gadd to sign the national sex offenders register, which allows authorities to monitor closely his activities. Gadd will now be required to register with the local police, keep authorities abreast of any travel plans, and could face orders prohibiting him from using the Internet or going near children...
...James Bond ever tires of working for the Secret Intelligence Service (all those tedious long-haul flights), its sister organization, MI5, responsible for Britain's domestic security, might be interested. After all, the fictional spy has kept abreast of technology, is keenly aware that failed states harbor Britain's enemies, and has even given up smoking ("I can blow someone's head off, but I can't light a good cigar," growled current Bond actor Daniel Craig). Moreover, though still a ladykiller - sometimes quite literally - the priapic secret agent has morphed from infamous misogynist to indiscriminate misanthrope. He's discovered...
...After my wife's call, I felt like lighting a votive candle to Russian progress: In Gogol's time, there were no cell phones to keep one abreast of the healing powers of the broken roads - just one of the daily miracles that keep this country going, sometimes against considerable odds. That may be why, even a century and a half after Gogol first complained about Russia's roads, expecting them to be repaired - well, that would simply be foolish...