Word: compacting
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Jeffords says the initial bitterness toward him has cooled among G.O.P. colleagues. "At first," he says. "I was pretty much walled off." And there has been some payback: Republicans undermined a Northeast dairy compact that subsidizes Vermont farmers, and they've refused to add extra money that Jeffords wanted for disabled students in the education reform bill passed last week...
...Mike, myth and reality collide at nearly every juncture. People who see his compact, 5-ft. 7 1/2-in. frame in person insist he must be shorter than the beefy man in the photo. The guys at work grumble that all the attention is going to him instead of the six men missing from his firehouse. His wife E.J. demands to know why they have only had a 30-second conversation about Sept. 11. Everyone wants to know how many people the superhero pulled from the towers. The answer never changes: "I saved one person that day, and that...
Radio stations across the country got a little surprise in the mail last week: just-burned plain white compact discs on which were scrawled, Let's Roll and NEIL YOUNG. Yes, the Neil Young, muttonchopped crooner of protest hymns, who, while recording his new album, asked his manager to roll out Roll, his ode to the hijacked passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. Young was inspired by reading an article about Todd Beamer, 32, who stormed the cockpit--but not before signaling his fellow rebels with his now famous phrase, "Let's roll." The song is "a powerful funk-rock...
...Radko's rendition of the World Trade Center, called Heroes All ($34, right), was made in Poland of mouth-blown glass. Frederick's of Hollywood's America the Beautiful thong ($5) was manufactured in Hong Kong and printed in the U.S. Estee Lauder is selling an America the Beautiful compact that comes in enamel ($40) or encrusted with crystals ($75). The latter model is made in the U.S. using crystals from Austria. Some have questioned whether the items are in good taste, but their appeal is twofold: proceeds support relief efforts and the economies of U.S. allies in the fight...
...reams of flimsy leaflets that'll soon flutter over Afghanistan, wishing villagers below a happy end to Ramadan "from the people of America." Near the print plant, a giant satellite dish beams a radio program with anti-Taliban messages to an air base in Oman, where crewmen rush a compact disk of the program to Commando Solo, a converted Air Force EC-130 plane packed with broadcasting gear. Commando Solo flies over Afghanistan, blanketing the country with the radio show for ten hours...