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Sometimes the messenger is the problem. The White House touted an event at a park near Birmingham, Ala., last month as an important talk on conservation, but the President gave a flat, disjointed speech that devoted five minutes to the subject. He seemed most interested in getting to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a three-day weekend--his sixth visit in less than six months as President. It didn't help that his promise to fully finance the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act was subverted by reports that his budget calls for cuts in a host of other...
...Sometimes the messenger is the problem. The White House touted an event at a park near Birmingham, Ala., last month as an important talk on conservation, but the President gave a flat, disjointed speech that devoted five minutes to the subject. He seemed most interested in getting to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a three-day weekend--his sixth visit in less than six months as President. It didn't help that his promise to fully finance the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act was subverted by reports that his budget calls for cuts in a host of other...
...hostage taker's nervous pacing or heaving diaphragm, the motions are translated into a bar of LED lights in which the height of the bar corresponds with the amount of movement in the room. In more sophisticated radar detectors, like the prototype made by Time Domain Corporation of Huntsville, Ala., the crude LED display is replaced by dancing circles and colored blobs that show both the location and trajectory of moving objects on the other side of an opaque barrier...
Edwards studied the role of bi-racial electoral coalitions coming together to elect blacks to office. He found that such coalitions were surprisingly common in the cities he studied, especially Birmingham, Ala., and Charlotte...
...advised me that maniacalarmy.org was trying to get into my computer. I checked out the domain name, and it belongs to a computer company in Birmingham, Ala. The people who work for the company may be perfectly innocent, although they have been dodging my phone calls. Still, as long as maniacs of any kind can access my computer through my phone line, I'll be keeping the firewall...