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...everybody, however, views conservation as such a taboo topic. The cantankerous Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has made repeat appearances on CNBC this week to bark out a stern conservation message. "If everyone cut back their driving by 3% we?d have gasoline coming out of our ears!" he told viewers. But he's one of the few lawmakers willing to publicly encourage cutting back. The President's four-point plan to reduce gas prices includes no mention of encouraging personal conservation - even though he has in the past pushed measures that create incentives to do so like giving...
With its hypertrophied “realistic” tics—for instance, naming real places and real brand-names—Saunders’ vision of America is not so much unreal as hyper-real: rather like a Chuck Close painting, it is composed of parts that have a tendency to roil within themselves, or to fly off toward an entropy deforming the very figure whose representation they simultaneously create...
...bulk of other rushing duties were handled by sophomore Noah Van Niel and freshman Michael Doerner. Dawson’s backup, sophomore Charles Baakel, also sat out the game, so the three running backs were essentially competing for time on the third team next season.“Chuck Baakel is a very solid second,” Murphy said. “I think the third-team tailback is going to be between not only guys like Randy and Mike, but we [also] have three pretty solid freshmen coming in at that position.”WIDE-OPENJunior wide...
...Though the severity of the battle was played down by official U.S. military spokesmen, officers on the ground tell a different story. "It lasted for about seven hours after we arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again...
DIED. Scott Crossfield, 84, civilian aircraft designer and cold war test pilot who in 1953 became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside...