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...rate fractionals are selling, the next stop could be, say, Talladega, Ala., or Hanover, Pa., where the nascar and horse crowds hang. A wild thought, perhaps. But when cattle used to outnumber people in the Roaring Fork Valley, who would have believed a visitor could find this place, let alone drop a million bucks to stay on Durant Avenue so he could boogie at the Belly Up club...
...former DeLay staff member, who says he was unsettled by Abramoff's constant presence. "Who is this guy, and what is he doing?" What he was doing, it now appears, was getting his clients, including not just Indian tribes but also businesses and government officials in foreign countries, to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars, often by making the contributions to nonprofit foundations that would in turn finance junkets for DeLay and other lawmakers, as well as their staffs. That was meant to get around House rules forbidding lobbyists to pay for congressional travel directly...
...Mars. He begins to demonstrate the basic physics governing astronomy using his dinner plate: “Were I to spin it like this”—he stops, interrupting himself, and grabs a fork—“better yet, if I sent this fork into space…” And he is off, gesturing earnestly with his silverware. When he is convinced he has given a sufficient explanation, he stops and jabs absently at his plate. “There’s just too much shit out there...
...design, so he asked Corradino D'Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled to look like landing gear. When Piaggio saw the first one in 1946, he exclaimed, ?Sembra una vespa! [It looks like a wasp...
...entire bowls of buttermilk dressing with his salads--he can persuade fellow bubbas to exercise and eat better. "I cannot completely describe just how contemptuous I was of exercise and those who engaged in it regularly," he writes in his book Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork. In May he ran a marathon...