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...CHIP SHOT New York Representative John McHugh (R) set aside $100,000 to help develop a nine-hole public golf course into a year-round resort...
...westerns that are surfacing now can do so only because some potent actor like Pitt invests his cachet in producing an epic-size movie on an indie-film budget ($30 million or so for Jesse James). Or because two boutique studios chip in for a modern western revenge film, as Paramount Vantage and Miramax did for Joel and Ethan Coen's smart, violent, defiantly quirky No Country for Old Men, coming in November. Or when a director with a hit movie on his résumé charms financiers outside the studio. That's how James Mangold, fresh from Walk the Line...
NASA is sweating out another chip in the heat-resistant tiles of a space shuttle, the kind of damage that doomed Columbia. This time it's Endeavour, which was hit by debris on its way to orbit. The wound is near a wheel well, a bad spot because it can provide access to the ship's innards. Shuttles have withstood worse, but no one will relax until the fiery ordeal of re-entry is done. [This article contains a diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Shuttle Endeavor...
...rooftops, wrapping a sheet around his hand to vault over a wall with shards of glass on it, and somehow keeping track of the elusive Nicky in a big, unfamiliar city. Maybe our super-spy's brain, earlier rewired by The Company, has been accessorized with a Google Earth chip implant...
...Both sides of the aisle pointed to presidential waivers that had allowed about 700,000 low-income adults, parents and pregnant women to receive S-CHIP coverage in 2006, and that Bush's own Administration has encouraged governors to expand the program...