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...Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied, "that's all anyone's going to hear." To Hughes, the counselor...
...does raise the possibility that I may need to have implanted, sort of - I think of a pacemaker plus. It is something called an ICD, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator," the vice president said. The device in question is a battery-driven device, about the size of a silver dollar, that senses the beating rhythm of the heart and sends an electrical jolt to heart muscles to correct any abnormal rhythm. It's generally implanted under the collarbone, with wires threaded to the heart muscles, and lasts about 8 years before needing replacement...
...supporters for his eventual election showdown with Djindjic. But by the time a little black van drove inconspicuously away from the Central Prison bearing the former strongman to face his accusers, the number of Serbs opposed to that outcome was surprisingly small. Their decision to extradite may have been driven by an overriding concern with their country's desperate financial plight, but Belgrade's post-Milosevic leadership has done a remarkable job over the past year in swaying Serbian public opinion solidly behind his extradition. In the end, even Kostunica proclaimed sending Milosevic for trial a lesser evil...
...only just begun to pose the more uncomfortable questions about collective culpability. But the trial will be a challenge to the international community, too. It was relatively uncontroversial, in the end, to bring economic pressure to bear to deliver the universally reviled Milosevic to trial after he'd been driven out of power. But it won't always be that way when it comes to other deserving candidates for war crimes trials. And the international community's actions to ensure Milosevic's delivery to The Hague create a universal precedent that won't be easily ignored in the future...
...around 1980 (in the course of elementary-particle, not astronomical, research), the theory says the entire visible universe grew from a speck far smaller than a proton to a nugget the size of a grapefruit, almost instantaneously, when the whole thing was .000000000000000000000000000000000001 sec. old. This turbo-expansion was driven by something like dark energy but a whole lot stronger. What we call the universe, in short, came from almost nowhere in next to no time. Says M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, a pioneer of inflation theory: "I call the universe the ultimate free lunch." One of the consequences of inflation...