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...just for Iran's Paralympic hopes but for the country's leadership, which still relies heavily on the symbolism of the veterans to stay in power. With Iran's war martyrs fading from the picture, however, the government, made up largely of aging clerics and politicians, has one less card to play. The veterans have little relevance for an increasingly young population that barely remembers the war and is instead angry about unemployment and corruption?and seemingly consumed with testing the limits of a strictly enforced religious dress code without getting busted...
...hidden on the bottom, designed to bounce sound off your desk. Throw in the optional Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, and the whole thing needs only one cable: the power cord. A minor gripe is that these don't come as standard; nor does Apple's wireless Internet card, the Airport. Who wouldn't want to do everything wirelessly with a computer like this? If Apple's history is any guide, most computers sold over the next four years will have this clean, all-in-one display look - but very few of them will be iMacs. Apple is notorious...
...knees are shot from three-mile runs with little stretching, but overall he is remarkably unchanged by the events of his presidency. In talking to him, you get the sense he really cares about just one question: Who will keep you safer? Bush says "steady, strong leadership" is the card he puts on the table--he has stared down history. His rivals on the Democratic ticket, he suggests, are bound to blink. "If they're going to change one day, they may change again," he tells a Las Vegas crowd. "I think you need somebody who's gonna do what...
...Republicans were as energized then as Democrats are today," says an Administration veteran. "They would have elected Donald Duck. The coalition that came together for George doesn't always come together, but it did for him." This includes some of the 30,000 on the Bush family's Christmas-card list who should have known better than to imagine that the son would essentially serve out the father's second term. They knew W. was charming and stubborn and sour-mouthed, much more like his mom than his dad. They knew he was more partisan by far than his father...
...DRUGSTORES In a number of cities, CVS is trying out kiosks that let customers scan their items and then pay with cash or a credit or debit card. One downside: the kiosks can't be used to ring up prescription drugs. Osco and Sav-On are running small-scale tests...