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...While she may have left France, she has not left her radio career behind. She continues to contribute stories for NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday on subjects ranging from the Big Dig to etiquette for the Presidential Inaugural Ball...
...especially since the technology is still at a stage when, from a scientific and engineering point of view, the system remains somewhat hypothetical. So despite President Bush's oddly New Democratic offer to share a little of the NMD pork with Russia's arms industry, Moscow is likely to dig in its heels against any abrogation of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, more confident now that the Senate will restrain Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from any precipitous rush to tear up the treaty and build a missile shield...
...lives with their daughter on the island of Sangir, north of Manado, has asked him to find other work, but the money is too good to give up. To earn more, he even works shifts in the mines themselves. "Sometimes I feel that one of the holes I dig will become my grave," he says with a laugh...
...spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there's no danger of contamination," the pony-tailed Sigarlaki says impatiently. He pauses and looks around, and spots Fecky. "My neighbors want to look for gold, too, now that I have started. But they don't have any money...
...Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...