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...Caterpillar Amigo leather desk accessory ($30, momastore.org...
...They ought to do it quickly. They ought to get the bill to my desk as quickly as possible, and I'll veto it.' PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, accusing Democrats in Congress of delaying an emergency-funding bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Included in the bill are timetables for an Iraq withdrawal, which Bush has refused to consider
...prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime saw the opposition less as a threat than an affront. The top crime on a list hanging above Moyo's desk was "insulting or undermining the authority of the President...
...college students, these small budgetary issues may seem like distant details that belong on the desk of some University Hall administrator. They could, however, mean the difference between small improvements that make a big difference to the student experience and the stagnation in student life that marked the 1990s, when Harvard’s student satisfaction scores plummeted. Faust must keep that sad memory firmly in the past by ensuring that the new dean cares deeply about the experiences of students at the College...
...field of sleep and dreams, these are promising times. But there's been no year more momentous than 1953. Until then, scientists had equated sleep with flicking off a desk lamp. For more than two decades they'd been able to record brain activity in sleep, but the feeling was, why bother? Why waste reams of costly graph paper making electroencephalogram recordings of what was thought to be a neurological desert? With no strong expectation of finding otherwise, University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinski and Nathaniel Kleitman decided it was worth doing, monitoring 10 subjects in a laboratory. Their findings...