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...lurking about 186 miles west-northwest of the Kursk, as was the commander's "permission granted." But instead of the sounds of torpedoes being blown from launch tubes, sonar operators aboard U.S. submarines working with the Loyal heard two explosions, one short and sharp, the second an enormous, thundering boom. A Norwegian seismic institute also recorded the explosions and said the second carried the force of two tons of TNT, registering 3.5 on the Richter scale...
...always been something of a gadget hound. The microwave. The cordless phone. The CD boom box. The Clapper. She was a consumer-electronics maven before it was fashionable. Radio Shack should have put her on its board of directors. So when she came to visit and started eyeing my handheld computer, I knew what was coming. "I've been thinking about getting one of those," she said pointedly. Perhaps it was a coincidence that her birthday was on the horizon...
...this is where John Kasich would have come in handy as a running mate - and if they still don't, he'll lose me in November, along with a lot of other people who see the relative fiscal discipline of the Clinton years as the catalyst behind this durable boom...
...this is where John Kasich would have come in handy as a running mate - and if they still don't, he'll lose me in November, along with a lot of other people who see the relative fiscal discipline of the Clinton years as the catalyst behind this durable boom...
...underscored this early in the night by featuring a panel of whippersnapper journalists - The Weekly Standard's Tucker Carlson, Salon's Jake Tapper, TIME's Tamala Edwards - who in this "Big Chill" context came across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared, "Today, our generation faces its own New Frontier." Um, our generation, Grampa...