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...original decision to petition the Supremes three weeks ago had been his; some advisers warned that he might not want them involved, but he had felt their judgment was crucial to the legitimacy of any final outcome. Now it looked as if the Justices might yet save him. Afterward, he played fetch with his dog Spot and then chopped down some cedar. He left it to his lieutenants to wage...
...Dick Cheney. Al Gore. His supporters. Gore's supporters. Democrats in Texas. Democrats in Washington. His late friend and mentor Bob Bullock. These were familiar notes from before Nov. 7 - the uniter, not the divider. And Wednesday night, in his final victory speech of the five weeks that came afterward, Bush struck the pose of the hopeful innocent, ready to heal the nation and its capital with a gentle hand for every shoulder...
...think that [our performance] says a lot," Grant said of the meet. "We had a lot of coaches coming up to us afterward, saying 'good job' and congratulating...
Cheney arrived at George Washington University Medical Center at 4:30 a.m., and shortly afterward, doctors performed an electrocardiogram and a blood test. The ECG, which looks at how well the heart is beating, showed no change from Cheney's previous ECGs. The blood test, which measures the presence of special enzymes released by the heart during a heart attack, showed no evidence yet of any damage. But doctors know it often takes several hours for cardiac enzymes to show up in the blood after a heart attack, so follow-up tests were ordered...
...same idea at the same time, and different nations therefore claim credit for being first. In 1837, Britain's Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke patented a five-needle telegraph. That same year, the American Samuel F.B. Morse created a telegraph that used a single key to transmit signals. Soon afterward he developed Morse code, a telegraph language made up of dots and dashes that became the standard...