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Albano could even be prosecuted, although the defiant mayor says the FDA couldn't stand the political fallout. "It would be a serious mistake to prosecute an elected official," he says. "If they're going to prosecute me, they better prosecute all those senior citizens on the bus to Canada too." --By Nathan Thornburgh
...squat and beige and not particularly personal, and its sole function was to play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, which seemed like a fair and adequate justification for its existence to a second-grader. As the year was 1977, the PET was kept in the school's fallout shelter, which otherwise was unoccupied owing to a lack of fallout...
...street corner where all the kids can hang out. Inside the computer is their street corner." She compares it to listening to the Grateful Dead when she was growing up in the 1970s, back when rock 'n' roll was still new and computers were safely confined to the fallout shelter. After all, she argues, all teenagers of every era have something that they do in their rooms, something that their parents just don't get, something that defines them as a generation. "They can hang out together using their computers in a way that I don't think that...
...predict what the practical fallout will be,” Kohl said...
Inside the Pentagon, the brass maintain that as long as U.S. troops are dying by ones and twos, they can deal with it. But the steady accumulation of casualties is generating political fallout that goes beyond the President's declining approval rating. An unscientific but arresting survey last week in Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon-subsidized but editorially independent military newspaper, reported that half the troops serving in Iraq believe their unit's morale is low. A third said their mission lacked clarity; half said they were unlikely to re-enlist. Perceptions like those undermine military authority and help sour...