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...only recently won a long battle for permission to build it. Rising cost projections, from $43 million in 1998 to $58 million - partly due to the need to make the facility secure from militant animal-rights protesters - led the university to declare that it could not afford to "build Fort Knox." Electoral Impasse IRAN President Mohammed Khatami said that efforts to resolve the crisis over parliamentary elections had reached a dead end after the hard-line Guardian Council refused to rescind bans on thousands of mainly reformist candidates. Officials had called for the election to be postponed, but the Council...
...strongest unifying force among most black voters is a shared rage against Bush. That resentment was ignited during the Florida recount fiasco, which many blacks perceived as rigged against them in all too familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized...
...spim problem is just starting to explode. Ferris Research estimates that twice as much spim was sent in 2003 as in 2002. Though people receive far more spam than spim, spim can be even more annoying. "It pops up and distracts you," says Casey McArdle, a graduate student in Fort Wayne, Ind., who says he gets about one spim a day. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete...
...most dramatic escalation of the air war is the creation of two totally new airlines. Next month United, which has been in bankruptcy since December 2002, plans to start flying its own knock-off low-fare airline called Ted. Flying initially from Denver to Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale, it will offer customers a multichannel entertainment system called Ted TV. Ted is aimed squarely at Frontier, the low-cost airline that has eaten away at United's dominance in flights out of Denver. Frontier accounts for 16% of that airport's passengers, up from 8% five years ago. Last year...
...Both widowed and both 87, Hilde and Joe met through relatives, took to each other and decided to set up joint housekeeping--though, at her insistence, only on weekends. "We had our lovefests at my place," says Hilde, a lively community volunteer in Tamarac, Fla., a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. "But on Mondays I'd send him packing." Recently Joe suffered a mild stroke. Refusing to go into a nursing home, he moved into a little house across from Hilde's. She got it furnished, makes him dinner and continues to enjoy his companionship. "He still likes...