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...Monday night, Reiff and other business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced each other in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary committee voted 12-6 to send a bill sponsored by chairman Arlen Specter to the floor that swings the momentum back to their side. In a sharp rebuke to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who had said he would introduce his own, tough counterpart to the House bill, Specter, three other Republicans and all the committee's Democrats united to force a pro-business, pro-immigrant bill through. Said a smiling Reiff minutes after the vote: "Specter...
...Sensenbrenner getting the drop on business last year, it was not easy to turn the tide. Public sentiment seemed to be largely behind the Sensenbrenner agenda, so the lobbyists focused their efforts on quietly lining up Judiciary Committee Republicans and ensuring a bill would get a vote on the floor of the Senate. Allies in the religious community and among immigrant rights groups helped organize the massive rallies over the last week that provided cover for Republicans...
...While I was talking to Seth?s parents, Seth climbed up and down from their laps, explored the infant scale and took a matchbox car out of his pocket and raced it along the floor. In every way, he appeared and acted like a healthy active four-year-old boy. I summed up my findings to Seth?s family, but they just sat and stared at me blankly, making no attempts to stand or get Seth dressed...
...winners in Canada's Arctic? When the Northwest Passage finally clears enough to be a viable shipping route--probably in the next 50 years--a whole range of trade opportunities will come with it. So will resources, as fossil-fuel deposits in the ocean floor become more accessible. ArcticNet researchers are already mapping out the undersea terrain with sonar and analyzing the geopolitical implications of finding the long-sought Arctic Grail. Their proposals should help the government deal with an international legal dispute already under way: whether the Northwest Passage is within Canadian waters, subject to domestic security and environmental...
...Belvedere, on the other side of Innisfail, Bruce Crausaz was confident his squat solid-brick home would easily withstand the gale-force winds - until he saw his wall-mounted television spear towards him. The heavy set catapulted him onto the floor. Rain pelted down on him. The roof was gone. Crausaz crawled out of the kitchen and in terror grabbed a plastic bucket, which he put over his head. For the next 40 minutes he half-knelt, half-lay on the floor with the bucket on his head, tightly gripping the door. "I know it wouldn't have stopped much...