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...helicopter sets down in Nantou county, next to a roadside restaurant where the waitresses and cooks have all come to stand by the road, their outfits buffeted by the rotor's downdraft. The President and his entourage are hustled into waiting Ford Econoline vans and then driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained, blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway. A hundred locals sit on white...
...Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s," the report stated. Cheney, removed from his Ford White House gig by Carter, remembers well how they played at home - a sudden shortage of crude, soaring prices, bread lines at the pumps. And very bad politics for the president...
...FUEL EFFICIENCY With Ford and GM arguing over who is greener, it may be time to raise fuel-efficiency rules. Closing the light-truck loophole that holds SUVs to a lower standard could save almost a billion barrels of oil a year...
MARCH 30--Is host at a lunch for Hall of Famers such as Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial and Nolan Ryan, where he announces his T-Ball Initiative: he and Laura will play host to T-ball games on the South Lawn to promote the national pastime. (First game was scheduled for last Sunday...