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...held the final presentation, on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, docked on Manhattan's west side, under a tent big enough to house several fields for a sport that requires a lot of space. Maybe there was a "Boot Camp" connection, but I was just creeped out, not least by the black-shirted Fox staff poised military-style around the perimeter of the room, trying to artificially induce whooping throughout the presentation...
...Dueling congressional news conferences: Republican Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici doffed his cap to Bush - "You have moved us in the direction of giving back taxes to the American people, rather than giving them the last cut of the deck" - and Democrat Robert Byrd pretending to call his mother. "Yes, Mother, I voted for the tax cuts," sang Byrd. "But now, on Medicare, no. We're putting that off for another day, Mother. Forget it." (Byrd also said Social Security, education and just about everything else gets shorted by Bush...
...Skipper/crew pairings for the Crimson included Clay Bischoff/Lema Kikuchi, Margaret Gill/Susan Bonney, and Sean Doyle/Michelle Yu. Cardwell Potts, Laura Knoll, and Dan Litchfield were on deck, but did not sail because of the conditions...
...options siphon off potential customers--including 30 other EP&L churches--but Green Mountain remains the most dedicated national player. The total output of U.S. renewables is 16,500 MW, about 2% of the total U.S. grid. "Until the demand for green energy increases, you're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Adam Markham of Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit in Portsmouth...
That is where the tragedy began. After his fire-control technician, Patrick Seacrest, had failed to realize the Ehime Maru's proximity, and after his officer of the deck, Lieut. Michael Coen, had scanned the sea with the periscope, Waddle took the scope and did a search. "When I looked out to Oahu I could see the peaks of the mountains and then a white belt. I thought, 'That's odd--I've never seen that before.'" The white haze made the small white hull of the Ehime Maru hard to distinguish. Waddle did not linger, though, since...