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Surprisingly though, all three now find themselves teetering on the brink of political demise with presidential futures a distant fancy...
...down of the staff. Leaders are coming up with all sorts of new issues to tackle--for example, counseling men on ways to get out of debt, to broaden and deepen the promises that must be kept. The days leading up to the rally, however, have been exuberant. The distant future does not faze McCartney. His trust is in the same God who inspired him seven years ago to start the movement. Promise Keepers, he says, is "gonna impact this country every conceivable way, for the good." He sees a chain reaction of conversions and personal transformations sweeping the country...
...flourished. When Stewart joined K Mart, she was the author of several successful books on entertaining and wedding planning, and the company, based in Troy, Mich., was the nation's biggest retailer, with sales of $23.99 billion and a stock price of $14.88. Back then, Wal-Mart was a distant second, with sales of $11.9 billion, and its stock...
...investigation into the ways in which the region's history has been written since ancient times by the scarcity of water. That would have been logical and achievable--a good, sensible subject with a reasonable stopping point. But by his own account, author Alex Shoumatoff, a veteran writer about distant parts for the New Yorker, spent too much time on the project for a neat, orderly account, traveled too far, read too many books, heard too many semitruths and beguiling lies from too many plausible liars and improbable truth tellers. He also lived through about 25 years...
...next big epidemic in Sudan will probably be sleeping sickness. The African trypanosome parasite that causes it is a distant cousin of the kala-azar protozoan. Infection rates in some villages in Western Equatoria, just south of the western Upper Nile, are already running at 20%. Experts question whether the disease can be treated without hospitalization--an option that, because of the large numbers infected, is out of the question. It is the kind of impossible field-medical problem that is tailor-made for Jill Seaman, and she has already indicated that she would like to get involved...