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...upon. “It wasn’t until we got the title that the look of the project really came together,” says Bastian. And a nest is exactly what the project will look like. A series of nylon ropes will be suspended from a bolt in the roof of the Holyoke Center, and from these ropes, a bed or “nest” of woven screen and rope will be hung. This nest will contain large-scale models of objects found in homes, such as watches, keys, a phone and a chair, that...
...members, the Air Line Pilots Association recommended new measures to deal with any terrorist threat--depressurizing the aircraft or making drastic maneuvers to keep hijackers off balance; protecting the cockpit at all costs, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the plane; installing a dead bolt on the otherwise flimsy cabin door and eventually developing an impenetrable, high-tech portal that can still open in the event of an accident; and using an emergency crash ax if necessary as a "potential defensive weapon...
...caused a near mutiny among reform supporters in the House. Liberal members of Congress object to a provision doubling the maximum amount of regulated "hard-money" contributions a donor can make to a candidate from $1,000 to $2,000. Public-interest groups such as Common Cause threatened to bolt over another provision that allows state parties to keep collecting soft money, arguing it creates a loophole for unregulated donations. Organized labor, a key Democratic constituency, opposes a ban on TV ads that unions and other interest groups run during campaigns to help their favorite candidates. And the 38-member...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...
...they get him out of this fix? Fletcher got some Republicans to bolt from the Norwood bill to sign on to his. But even with Hastert and the GOP leadership behind him, he doesn't yet have a majority. Many moderate Republicans are holding off and only a few Democrats have defected to his measure. "A lot of Democratic members would like to vote for this bill but they're getting unprecedented pressure from their leadership to vote against it," Fletcher tells TIME. Fletcher isn't helped by the fact that the Senate finally passed the Kennedy-McCain-Edwards bill...