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...Campaign-finance reform has a nice and legitimate ring to it," says Davis, whose two primary opponents last year put up $60 million together, almost all of it their own, against his $10 million. "But it is also an invitation to every Silicon Valley billionaire to spend his own money" to get elected in an effort to bury "people who have devoted most of their lives to public service...
...reason for the stubbornness may be that the same military leadership is in charge in Moscow, and they claim to have learned from their previous failures. More important, they claim to have learned from NATO's almost casualty-free successes in Kosovo. Last week, before a blackout descended on military news, Moscow TV carried cockpit footage of a Russian smart missile destroying its Chechen target. It'll be a nice short offensive, General Valery Manilov of the General Staff declared cheerfully. If the troops move "energetically," he predicted, "we won't have to winter there...
...astonishing clutter of pins, screws, nails, spikes, plates and wires, as though the right side of my body were a reject costume design for RoboCop. My muscles had wasted away from inaction, and I could scarcely move without severe pain. I stank of sweat and urine. And I felt almost crazily happy--partly because of the outpouring of support and affection from friends and family, and partly because I knew I had been to the limit and made it back. Though diminished, I was alive. I had always taken that condition for granted before. I never will again. Blind luck...
...sake, hang up - it?s gonna blow! Cell phones are annoying, they cause car accidents, and they may give you brain cancer. Now, it seems, they may be combustible. Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber...
...TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite new toy finally begun? "There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a gas station anywhere in the world," scoffed Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in a written statement. But to DeWitt, that might as well have come...