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Seismology and weather observation are the focus of the largest numbers of SAS members. Carlson attributes this partly to the universal fascination that these topics hold and partly to the existence of a number of other organizations that already exist for people with other interests, like the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, for birders, and the Association of Variable Star Observers, which works with astronomers...
...Senate victory would place the House under similar pressure, and although the House Republican leadership opposes the bill, the votes may exist to override the leadership's decision and put the bill up for a vote. If passed, the bill would present an early test of Bush's commitment to reform. Bush would then have 10 days to veto the bill or allow it to become law; a presidential veto of the leading campaign-finance reform bill would have severe political consequences and undercut Bush's credibility as a "reformer with results...
...Speaking of families, I can understand that loyalty is important in an organization like the Mafia, where all other values don't really exist. "Don't ever take sides with anyone against the family, ever," Michael Corleone told his brother Fredo in "The Godfather (Part 1)." (He offered far shrewder advice in Part II: "Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer...
...wanted only to exist in the extreme bottom right-hand corner of his own panels - where it said "Schulz." He wanted to limit himself to being that little scribble. If he could draw his four panels a day, sign himself "Schulz," close up shop and go home, all would be well...
...Dates and deadlines really exist to keep society functioning in an orderly fashion. They are things we make up and adhere to in order to make everything run smoothly. April 15, tax day, is just a date on the calendar; there's no reason it couldn't be April 1 or May 1. It's arbitrary, and arbitrariness is not all bad. (It was Justice Felix Frankfurter who said, "If you can't be fair, be arbitrary," and the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have followed his advice...