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...President has vetoed a bipartisan measure to expand health insurance for low-income children. Most of his expressed objections to the bill have been vigorously refuted by Republican Senators who helped craft the legislation. Members of his own party have vowed to lobby their colleagues in an effort to override the veto. During his first presidential campaign, Bush chided conservative House Republicans for spending cuts accomplished on the backs of the poor. Now congressional Republicans are chiding...
...more important, a decade of honing their race craft. "There is no better place to learn how to read your competitors, how to pressurize them at Turn 2 so that at Turn 4 they make a mistake," says Jason Plato, 39, the Seat team driver currently leading the British Touring Car Championship, and a kart racer from the age of 11. "All those subtle skills you learn in karting...
...overseeing a program larger and more technically challenging than any the service was accustomed to managing. Sensing weakness at the Pentagon, congressional supporters, largely from the V-22's key manufacturing states of Texas (Bell Helicopter) and Pennsylvania (Boeing), created the Tilt-Rotor Technology Coalition to keep the craft alive, despite Cheney's opposition. They were aided by nearly 2,000 V-22 suppliers, in more than 40 states, who pressured their lawmakers to stick with the program. And so, despite Cheney's doubts, the Osprey survived...
There's also been controversy over a sandstorm test for the craft. The V-22's tendency to generate a dust storm when it lands in desert-like terrain wasn't examined because "an unusually wet spring resulted in a large amount of vegetation that prevented severe brownouts during landing attempts," the Pentagon's top tester noted. But the program continued, albeit with a caution about the aircraft's ability to fly in dusty conditions...
...creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring enlisted Picasso to design a table setting for an exhibition that the jeweler was staging. Soon she was showing Tiffany executives her one-of-a-kind pieces, including a necklace of big hammered-gold balls circled in tiny diamonds that...