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...Bush's critics, hearing the word, go ironic. They put evil in quotes and think of Dana Carvey's Church Lady: "Well, isn't that special, Saddam? Who's your little friend? Could it be Satan!!!???" They mock Bush for what they see as a primitive, frightening and atavistic use of a medieval term that should probably be banished from civilized discourse in a multicultural world...
...congressional districts already drink from the ISS trough, and the giant project cannot survive without the shuttle trucking up its parts. Buy one, and you're stuck with the other. "No one is going to write off the shuttle and station. We're too invested in them," says Representative Dana Rohrabacher, the California Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics...
...changed much in the Greek islands, except that cars have replaced cheetah-drawn chariots, and fewer revelers dress in snakes. Titian produced "some of the sexiest pictures that you will see anywhere," says Jaffé. He pushed "the envelope of how erotic you could go in a painting." Danaë, painted for Pope Paul III's grandson Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and using his girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus...
Peter went on to earn a two-year degree in computer programming. He made friends, started dating, and in May 2000 his son, Dana, was born. It quickly became clear that neither Peter nor Dana's mother was able to take care of a child, and Velma and Ed once again stepped in and agreed to raise the boy. "One never knows when the next blessing will appear, does one?" Ed wrote in a Christmas letter that year to family and friends...
...future, the Beales are cautiously optimistic. Dana is thriving, and though he is at greater risk of developing schizophrenia at some point than a child without an afflicted parent, there is a better than 80% chance that he will not. The Beales have also learned to cast aside the feelings of shame and stigma that are still too often attached to schizophrenia. "My mother had cancer," Velma says. "I'm not ashamed to talk about that. Why should I be afraid to tell people about mental illness?" Peter's brother and sister also talk openly about his condition with their...