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...this morning at 9:30 that he is leaving the Republican Party. All day Wednesday, speculation was swirling through Washington as the country's lawmakers waited to hear whether U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords, Republican of Vermont, would part ways with the GOP. The will-he-won't-he reached fever pitch with reports of a 2 p.m. press conference, then waned just slightly with the news that the fiercely independent Jeffords was returning later in the day to his home state...
...What's fueling the high-rise fever is simple: excess cash. Enron's first-quarter revenues were up 281%, while Calpine's revenues and net income were each up more than 400%--even with California's deadbeat utility PG&E owing the company more than $300 million...
...other debate reached fever pitch last Thursday as the Senate voted to approve a federal budget that includes a $1.35 trillion tax cut. As passage of the budget became inevitable, Democratic leaders resumed chanting old mantras, insisting the tax cut favors the rich at the expense of the poor. Thanks a lot, they cried, you black-hearted Republicans...
...Nakamura owns more than 100 of the robots, which he carefully displays in a glass case at his parents' Los Angeles home. When Internet auction fever hit last year, the prices of the rarest robots - the $500-range machines intact in original box and Styrofoam - quadrupled, so Nakamura took a deep breath and hopped on a plane to Japan to hunt out the best deals. "It was the first time I'd traveled somewhere just to fulfill my toy fetish," he says of his trips down narrow Tokyo alleyways to check out tiny toy-shops. "But Japan is a mecca...
...tell Robbie—who, unlike me, is an official runner and fast—not to do the same thing. (The irony, of course, is that Robbie would end up collapsing just before the finish line of dehydration and a 104-degree fever, crawl to the finish line, and be featured on the Channel 5 news that night. He still finished in 3 hours flat...