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...Manhattan waiting for him. 1971: President Nixon sends Manhattan and The Comedian to Vietnam; the war is over within a week, with the locals lining up to surrender personally to the big blue guy. 1976: Nixon is elected to a third term. 1977: Nixon pushes the Keene Act through Congress, outlawing the Watchmen. 1985: America is an open sewer of drugs and porn, and The Comedian is defeated, defenestrated, dead...
...Sunday Mornings with George Stephanopolous? Take King’s class, and you too can revel in being called “Congressman.” Committees meet and heatedly discuss legislation. Ambitious legislators run for leadership positions. Almost everything is the same as being a real member of Congress. Except, instead of being an actual elected official, you’re a tool...
...original version of this story misstated that the Capitol Power Plant supplied electricity, rather than steam and cooled water, to Congress...
...health-care summit at the White House later this week, Administration officials are signaling that he intends to pursue a very different strategy for getting reform passed from the one used by his Democratic predecessor in office. Unlike the failed effort of 1994, when Bill and Hillary Clinton presented Congress with a detailed blueprint for reform - and never saw a bill reach the floor of either the House or Senate - Obama is outlining broad principles, with a bottom line of universal coverage, and leaving it up to lawmakers to fashion a plan for meeting them...
...regulations, approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, will raise safety standards, increase punishments and institute a system of risk evaluation that includes monitoring 500,000 companies, the state-run Xinhua news service reported on Feb. 28. Responsibility for food safety will be divided among the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Food and Drug Administration and the ministries of health, agriculture, commerce and industry. Such division among several government bureaus has long been considered a shortcoming of the Chinese safety system, as various agencies have battled for control and potential revenue...