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...Senate Office of Public Records. Overall, TIME estimates, the synfuel lobby has spent more than $5 million during that same period. The effort has got results. In recent years, the lobby has successfully turned aside efforts to revoke the IRS rulings on which the tax credits are calculated. It beat back an effort in the House Ways and Means Committee last year to send a bill to the House floor that would have virtually eliminated the tax credit. The bill's sponsor, Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, called the tax credit "one of the worst tax loopholes on the books...
...Winter Olympics where hyped athletes tumbled from grace, a little-known Japanese figure skater became a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice. SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...
...decided to test fly the site for ourselves and found that couples traveling aboard a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 Version 3 can't beat the adjacent seats A and C in rows 61 to 63. These are rare rows of two seats each, with extra storage space between the seats and the window. The guru does warn that the extra gap may get in the way of snoozing against the window pane-but it sure beats being stuck by that queue for the toilet...
...fighting fire with fire." For the moment, the Olympics have no way to standardize treatment of doping across borders. If China or Canada, next up in Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010, follows the Italian lead, that could mean Chinese secret police or Royal Canadian Mounted Police walking the doping beat. Even then, all agree that catching perpetrators remains an uphill climb...
...feel like we’re in a position where everyone wants to beat us,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “In all honesty, it’s an enviable position...