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...have experienced this feeling on any number of occasions. Returning from a trip on Sunday, even, Northwest Airlines refused to issue a boarding pass for one of my blockmates who I was traveling with, even though we had reconfirmed our tickets and requested seat assignments days before the actual flight. We had done everything right and followed all the rules, so how could they prevent one of us from flying...
...then Bush's next-biggest enemy reared its head: time. A visibly doddering Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) leafed through newspaper clippings and entertained interruptions from fellow senators for 45 minutes before finally passing the baton. A mini-debate ensued about how this White House's procedural behavior - the actual budget hasn't arrived yet; the Senate is working from the guidelines passed by the House - compared with the similarly new Clinton administration's in 1993. (That budget passed 51-50 with Al Gore's vote, if you'll recall, and worked out rather well for the White House.) And the minority...
...area—the other 17.5 million acres do have the protected wildlife status that The Crimson endorses. And, though The Crimson finds “it difficult to believe” that drilling could be so “innocuous,” with advancing oil technology, the actual surface area which would have to be drilled IS only about three square miles, regardless of what The Crimson wants to believe. Though The Crimson also decries Prudhoe Bay as a polluted mess, Prudhoe Bay development has been successful and responsibility is improving. With strict standards for conservation, the number...
...Bush approves the sale, Beijing's anger could undermine human rights and nonproliferation efforts. But some say the tough talk could be necessary for a compromise. Bush could say yes but put off the actual sale for a year while China would be asked to cut back its military spending and reduce the missiles aimed at Taiwan...
...role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were merely told to expect an electric shock, the neurological reaction to the anticipated jolt was as powerful as fears based on actual experience. "There is a lot of legitimacy to the idea that phobias can be learned," says Edna B. Foa, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. "We respond to what we see or experience...