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...Granted, Obama has hardly been more bipartisan than the average president despite his pledge to be so. His courtship of congressional Republicans has been largely symbolic, failing to adopt any of their ideas despite spending more time with House Republicans than President Bush did. His stimulus bill garnered only three GOP votes out of 219 in both houses of Congress, and that was more than his budget received...
...extent. Try to think of anybody ever in television before Regis and myself who talked about their lives for a living. It was brand-new. Nobody had ever, ever done it before on a national level. I went through my pregnancies on television, the birth of my children, my courtship and marrying Frank was all on television. It was I Love Lucy but not scripted...
...beautiful way of moving with the sea, but I just didn't know how to translate it with paper. Also I try not to do animals that are already seen. For example a lot of people say, 'why don't you do birds?' Some of them do these fantastic courtship dances. But they are often filmed and so they're beautiful themselves, so I don't see any way that we could make it any better. But earthworms and flies have not been filmed this way, so it becomes more inspirational for me to make. (See pictures of tiny creatures...
...relationship between brain activity and sleep patterns in a group of fruit flies and isolated three key genes responsible for dictating how much sleep flies got in certain situations and when. Under normal conditions, flies doze off, even during the day, after engaging in intense social activities, including courtship, acclimating to a new environment and fighting over mates and territory. But Shaw found that when flies were genetically bred to be missing the three genes - colorfully named rutabaga, period and blistered - that, among other functions, help regulate sleep, they failed to fall asleep after busy episodes of social activity...
...characterize the importance of the David Beckham signing and how much his courtship with A.C. Milan has detracted from the prestige it afforded your league...