Word: dicks
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...early July, when a former government employee accused Dick Cheney's office of deleting from congressional testimony key statements about the impact of climate change on public health, White House staff countered that the science just wasn't strong enough to include. Not two weeks later, however, things already look different. University of Texas researchers have laid out some of the most compelling science to date linking climate change with adverse public-health effects: scientists predict a steady rise in the U.S. incidence of kidney stones - a medical condition largely brought on by dehydration - as the planet continues to warm...
...Washington Climate Censorship? A three-page letter by a former Environmental Protection Agency official charges that Vice President Dick Cheney's office excised six pages on the adverse health effects of global warming from expert testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2007. The White House said the pages were cut because they didn't match the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the environment committee, has called that statement a "lie," saying the cuts amounted to censorship...
...DICK GRASSO gets to keep $187.5 million compensation...
...day’s events were fun, entertaining and certainly eye-opening. While much of the parade was family-oriented, certain floats did whip it out when they could. With marriage now a possibility for same-sex partners, any Tom, Dick or Harry...
...issue in the present case, District of Columbia v. Heller, was the city's ban prohibiting ownership of handguns that were unregistered as of 1976 - a statute that, by effectively nullifying possession, ranks among the nation's stiffest. Dick Anthony Heller, a security guard, filed suit against the district after it denied him permission to register, and thereby keep, a handgun intended for self-defense within his home. A D.C. federal appeals court supported Heller on the grounds that the city's ban violated his Second Amendment rights. (See pictures of an ammunition plant...