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There is an element of truth to the foreign perception of Americans as cultural and linguistic isolationists. When we go abroad, we speak English to everyone we meet and get angry when they do not understand. If we go abroad, that is. Very few Americans make it overseas, and if they do, they go to London or Paris, maybe Rome. Those on more expansive budgets perhaps relax at a resort in Phuket (Thailand) or in Bali (Indonesia) where western food is served alongside western beds, western toilets, western people and western consumer-oriented service. Americans leave relaxed but totally ignorant...
...discuss the cases take place on Wednesday afternoon and Friday conferences begin at 9:30 a.m. for most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular conference table, and thus have unrestricted elbow room. Rehnquist also adds a human element to the workings of the Supreme Court: He and Justice Harry Blackmun shared geography trivia during dull moments on the bench, and Thurgood Marshall was the Court’s raconteur. Rehnquist also justifies the way the current procedure works. He effectively addresses concerns about the Court: that law clerks...
These tubes could potentially be used as the primary conductive element in computers or other electronic devices...
...away in oil fields and refineries. The company is also looking into cutting carbon content in fuel and boosting the efficiency with which it burns. The oil giant and Ford Motor Co. are providing a $15 million grant to Princeton University, partly to study "sequestering" carbon--stripping the greenhouse element from hydrocarbons, burying it underground and burning the hydrogen that remains as clean fuel. "You can run a company on the basis that you only do what the law demands," says Browne. "We use compliance with the law as a minimum and then go beyond that...
...cattiness, what would we watch? Because the other way in which the Oscars have become the Super Bowl for the rest of us is that the tantalizing walk-up is really the show itself, otherwise, you're stuck watching a four-hour, snail-paced foregone conclusion, the only suspenseful element of which is the contents of the chip-dip bowl on your coffee table...