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...this country," Tancredo declared, Americans "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama" - with an ominous emphasis on the President's middle name. Perhaps the most talked-about book of the convention was The 5,000 Year Leap, by the late right-wing writer W. Cleon Skousen, which argues that the Founding Fathers set up the U.S. on firm Christian bedrock and designed the Constitution to maximize individual liberty and free enterprise. Speaker after speaker commended the volume, a favorite of Glenn Beck's, and though it is far from Skousen's most extreme statement, with...
...sure scared us," said Flight Director Cleon Lacefield. Less than six minutes after launch last week, while the space shuttle Challenger's speed remained well below the velocity of 17,500 m.p.h. that it must achieve to go into orbit, onboard computers shut down one of its three main engines. Reason: sensors were signaling overheating in the fuel pump. Two and a half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled...
...Jochem Goovaerts, a spokesman for the Belgian National Rail Company, many stations are too small or poorly staffed to accommodate wheelchair users - and this is unlikely to improve soon. "We are modernizing a few stations and it is taken into account if possible," he says. Even onboard, says Cleon Angelo, 47, a wheelchair user who heads the disabled-rights group Autonomia in Brussels, the disabled can expect "medieval" treatment...
...family picnic in 1959, Ermal Cleon Fraze found himself with a can of beer and no can, opener-one of life's major annoyances at the time. The solution came to him "just like that" one sleepless night. In 1963, Fraze, the founder of Dayton Reliable Tool Co., obtained the patent for a removable pull-tab opener for the tops of cans. Continental Can Co. created a nonremovable tab 16 years later...
...Chinese doctor who developed the medication, Dr. Xu Rong Xiang, flew to the U.S. for the first time to present his findings at major burn centers in New York City, Boston and Bethesda, Md. The reception was not as warm as he might have hoped. Said Dr. Cleon Goodwin, director of the respected New York Hospital Burn Center: "Dozens of magic potions have been put forward as miracle cures in the past 30 years. Not one has panned out. So naturally we are skeptical...