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...shots until all hours. At the beginning of the tour, he mentioned it and said, "I'm sure you don't need to see that." He wouldn't want to be accused of exploiting his myth. Besides, in the morning he'll be holding a press conference underneath the basket...
Last night my daughter woke up at 4 a.m. in high spirits and yelled at us until we took her downstairs to the kitchen. She dug into her toy basket and got out her favorite doll, which laughs when you whack it, a perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered...
...like a warning, and laid down his picks and pans: Debt reduction, which would lower interest rates and free up investment capital -- good. New spending, which neither party trusts the other to lay off of -- bad. Saving for the future ?- good. Putting all your eggs in one tax-cut basket and hoping for the best -? bad. All in all, Greenspan signed off on a rather conservative, rather Republican philosophy. It?s just that the Republican who?s getting all the credit for it is Bill Clinton...
...principal trouble spots are the shock-absorbing disks between the vertebrae and the facet joints, at the back of each vertebrae, that act as brakes to rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into...
Bush had a giant basket of names to start with--from Texas, from his father, from his work in Major League Baseball, from Yale, Harvard and Andover. He and Rove appealed to the old hands in a new way: he actually asked for their opinions before he asked for their money. He questioned them about the political landscape, about the other candidates' strengths and weaknesses, about policy--the kind of intellectual stroking that fund raisers don't normally get. And Bush's team set out to pull in a whole new cadre, people who hadn't been interested in politics...