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...ladies couldn’t succumb yet.By the time the contestants reached Quincy, they were fading quickly, and a new rule was instituted: each is permitted to approach two strangers and ask them to take one bite out of her chickwich. Though both contestants hesitated to demand this favor of strangers, the thought of less chickwich ultimately won.DeSantis walked to the end of the dining hall and patiently explained her predicament.“Is this for some kind of experiment?” asked one doubtful diner.“No,” DeSantis quickly assured, hoping that...
...would cripple the U.S. economy by raising electric rates and damaging America's ability to compete with China - McCain was cagey about whether he would support it. Most coal-state Democrats and all but a handful of Republicans are shunning the bill, but McCain recently took a stand in favor of it. He rejected those dire economic predictions from the business lobby, and said, "I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the President of the United States would sign...
Still, if chatter among China's 200 million Internet users is anything to go by, Beijing's decision to allow unusually open coverage of the earthquake has been vindicated. Comments on bulletin boards and blogs were overwhelmingly in favor of the government and approving of its reaction to the disaster. "I almost cried when I saw the pictures of Premier Wen at the front," a typical post ran. "I felt very warm when I read that Premier Wen Jiabao immediately set off to the stricken," another poster wrote. "I feel like our leaders are always with us when there...
...like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...
...March passed legislation that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses, when policies offer coverage for both. "Mental illness and drug addiction are every bit as real and serious as physical illness," said Congressman Joe Courtney, a Democrat from Connecticut, of his vote in favor of the bill. "And by providing intervention and early treatment we may be able to prevent more serious and costly conditions down the road...