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David K. Chivers, a shaggy-headed delegate from Lee and a member of the state committee, wiped the perspiration from his brow and refastened the Pierce button to his red suspenders. He had just finished tabulating the delegate vote from the Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire senate district. Weld won the district by nine votes, but Chivers was excited anyway...
...look closely, and then closer still, you will understand why each piece took so long to complete. The attention to detail is incredible. The artists, equipped with kitten hair paintbrushes, individually drew every hair in the brow of every two-inch high prince, and captured the expressions of every tiny servant that populated every prince's palace...
...spend reading period trapped in the library with him. Actually, the libraries. You see, Jon needs to change his study atmosphere frequently in order to maintain the proper psychological outlook towards his work. So I got to watch him wipe sweat off his over-furrowed brow and make funny gurgling noises in Adams House Library, Quincy House Library, Lamont Library, Cabot Library and the Kennedy School Library. Not to mention the dining halls, our common room...
When George Bush proclaimed himself the environmentalist candidate in an outdoor campaign speech on Aug. 31, 1988, he had to mop his brow several times as he spoke. Last year was the hottest ever recorded, spurring a debate among scientists as to whether the mercury was registering proof of the "greenhouse effect." Carbon dioxide and other chemicals are spewed into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and gasoline; the gases trap radiation that has come from the sun and that would otherwise escape into space. The result is global warming: over time, sea levels will rise...
...conference. The temperature in the hall will probably be more comfortable than it was when he gave his "I am an environmentalist" speech in the hot summer of 1988. But unless he has more to show on the greenhouse effect than rhetoric, the President should be mopping his brow anyway -- at least in embarrassment, and perhaps in anxiety for the future of the planet...