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...summer prior to freshman year, students anxious to stand out among their illustrious peers zero in on a way to differentiate themselves: shopping. From Bed, Bath and Beyond to thrift shops, Crate and Barrel to Urban Outfitters, pre-frosh scour through dozens of packages of extra-long twin sheets...
...burden for Medicare, discretionary spending has increased 27% in the past two years. Much of that has gone to fighting the war on terrorism, but funds have also been spent on new benefits for veterans, subsidies for farmers and aid to low-performing schools and needy students. Pork-barrel spending is also on the rise. In the past two years, it has gone up 48%, according to one watchdog group, including millions of dollars in the farm bill that went to those infamous mohair subsidies, and politicians of both parties are quietly delighted that the public no longer seems...
...moment it seemed that the tight end would barrel into the end zone to tie up the game. But Quaker linebacker Steve Lhotak blocked his way as the clock expired, leaving the Crimson anticlimactically empty-handed on the six-yard line...
...Southern California, fall is the time of maximum danger. That's when hot, dry winds--the infamous Santa Anas--barrel out of the desert, driving small blazes (set in this case by a lost hunter and suspected arsonists) to savage frenzy. Making matters worse this time was the one-two punch of a multiyear drought (which weakened millions of trees) and a massive bark-beetle infestation (which killed off many of them). The Federal Government had just denied the state's request for more funding to remove dead trees when the fires hit. In a matter of days...
...regular army, which they argue should never have been disbanded. Others in the IGC, however, see the old army as dominated by Sunni officers, and some of the Kurd and Shiite parties want a greater role for their own militias. Political power in the old Iraq issued from the barrel of a gun, and the contenders for power in the new Iraq are in no rush to prematurely turn theirs into plowshares...