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...dimly lit chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, some 25 Republican members took the floor Monday, talking to only a peanut gallery of journalists and hordes of tourists they'd invited to fill their absent Democratic colleagues' seats...
...infrastructure, and not just its roads and bridges but also its educational, energy, information and research infrastructures. "The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that we're going to have to spend $1.6 trillion over the next five years to rebuild our infrastructure," says Janet Kavinoky of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization not known for its radical-leftist leanings. "We've let things lapse for 20 years. The pipes, wires, asphalt, bridges and radar systems are old, and everything seems to be falling apart at once...
...opinionated fans to help shape his performance. "I spent a lot of time with you guys, looking at your threads, looking at your blogs," he said. "I learned a lot from you about who Rorschach is." Crudup, whose Doctor Manhattan gained his powers after being locked inside a test chamber during a nuclear-physics experiment, said he prepared for the role by "changing my molecules, stuff that they don't teach you at drama school...
...young, unwed parents--Deana Binkley, 17, and Jesse Sepulveda, 26, of Pasadena--were incapable of providing him with the exhaustive care he would require after surgery. The infant had been born with a rare, fatal condition called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, in which the heart's main pumping chamber is improperly developed. Without a transplant at Loma Linda, the only institution in the area that performs such surgery on infants, doctors said Jesse would die in a matter of weeks. The impending tragedy had the makings of a front-page story, which it quickly became. With help from a family...
...from his band. Musicians who fell short were subjected to ''the ray.'' ''He'd look over his glasses and stare at you --really nail you down with his eyes,'' remembers Vibraphonist Hampton, a member with Pianist Wilson and Drummer Gene Krupa of the seminal Goodman Quartet, which introduced a chamber-music approach to jazz. ''And all the time he'd be making some of the most difficult passages on his clarinet. He wouldn't stop playing, and he wouldn't stop glaring.'' Goodman's relentless drive had its roots in his impoverished childhood, for music was a passport...