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...before the crowd of more than 600 in a sweltering hall. As she has on countless talk shows, she described her fight to get the White House to appoint a commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks. Bush, she said, agreed only after the Senate voted 90 to 8 in favor of it. "We gave every opportunity to President Bush to do the right thing," said Breitweiser, a high-profile widow whose presence on the campaign trail is designed to project the message that women can count on Democrats to protect their kids...
...which licensed the feather-separating technique from ARS five years ago, it's continuing to tweak the production method at its headquarters in Nixa, Mo., while seeking investment for a full-scale factory. Emery has already demonstrated several applications for the fiber, and the math should work in his favor: a pound of raw feathers is worth about 2¢, but could fetch roughly $1 as processed fiber. "I strongly believe," Emery says, "that in a very short period of time, processed poultry feathers will be worth more per pound than poultry meat." Then again, the technology is still...
...dress in the '70s, and in the early '90s used ballerinas as models to demonstrate the ethereal lightness of his designs. Known as a contrarian among his Seventh Avenue peers, Beene did not follow trends or play the fashion game, often rejecting the notion of fashion as commerce in favor of it as art. --By Kate Betts
...behind Karzai. The ambassador denies that, even though one candidate, Mohammed Mohaqiq, went public with such an accusation. Khalilzad and Karzai dine together at least three times a week, palace insiders say, and many Afghans, by nature conspiratorially minded, are convinced that the election's outcome is rigged to favor Karzai...
...HIRA: Let me give you my take on outsourcing. First, how much of it is going on? Really, no one knows. Companies are very reluctant to reveal how many jobs they've eliminated here in favor of moving work offshore. The government is not collecting the data, and I see this as a major failure. We do know that it's not insignificant, and it's accelerating...