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...months ago when California was dark and the White House, in chorus with the Ken Lays of the world, simply advocated more exploration, more production and more deregulation - oh, and for the personally virtuous, more conservation. There was indisputably more for business than for the environment in proposals to drill the Alasksan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) and to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. An unapologetic Bush was not going to curb coal, oil or nuclear energy - at least until he won West Virginia again...
...Here's the drill: before passing through the inner perimeter of any Olympic venue, media, athletes and spectators alike go through a security check more rigorous than anything you'll ever encounter at a U.S. airport. You and everything you have on you is x-rayed, your bags are searched by hand, and all electronic equipment is turned on. God help you if you didn't remember to recharge the battery on that camcorder; you might not be allowed to take...
...full of nervous students. This year in Literature and Arts C-55, “Surrealism,” DeNovellis “[went] on for about 5 minutes about emergency room procedures…about walking out of the room without talking to anybody, single file, kindergarten fire-drill procedures,” says Neilesh Mutyala ’04. “People were laughing out loud but the guy was oblivious...
...underlining. We had our worries. There were fears that cell phones would cause brain cancer. Fears that we were overprescribing antibiotics. Drinking too much arsenic. That sharks were stalking us. The lights went out in California. There was the fight over stem cells, the fear about clones. Do we drill in the Arctic? On Sept. 10, Congress was debating another tax cut, schools were debating dress codes: Are spaghetti straps too risque? There was news of a suicide bombing in Istanbul. That seemed very far away...
...worth underlining. There were worries. There were fears that cell phones would cause brain cancer. Fears that we were overprescribing antibiotics. Drinking too much arsenic. That sharks were stalking us. The lights went out in California. There was the fight over stem cells, the fear about clones. Do we drill in the Arctic? On Sept. 10, Congress was debating another tax cut, schools were debating dress codes: Are spaghetti straps too risquE? There was news of a suicide bombing in Istanbul...