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...possible now," Morse told the students that he would vote "not happily" for resumed testing due to his Senatorial responsibility to maintain the "security of our country." He called "all testing immoral" but explained that testing was essential to prove the small, as yet untried, war-heads on solid-fuel missiles and anti-missile missiles...
...year that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year." O'Dell, who has raised more than $100,000 for President Bush, said he didn't mean that he would use his machines to cheat in the election. But his statement helped fuel mushrooming conspiracy theories that evoting-machine vendors might precook election counts...
...Marines' AH-1 Cobra--which in turn would require more troops and more choppers than are available in the theater at the moment. Although vital supplies are getting through, there are shortages of little luxuries--like deodorant--in the green zone, and looming shortfalls of ammunition and fuel. "We didn't have enough transportation units in the major combat operation, and we sure don't have enough now," says an Army planner intimately involved in the war. "You know, we were thinking of taking airmen and sailors and throwing them into trucks. We abandoned that, but that shows how desperate...
...discovered a way to make a quieter and immeasurably greater impact on politics. He and his brother Dean founded a company committed to an analogous task: unearthing and assembling hidden but public information--voter rolls, driver's licenses, census data--for use by activists and politicians. Information and connectivity fuel democracy, Phillips reasoned, so the more that people have of each, the easier participation becomes...
...coast in 2002 the country had grown weary of overhyped Websites, corporate greed and generally arrogant business people. The recession decimated the Silicon Valley economy as untold billions evaporated in the California sun. Many reckoned that it was the end of California's reign as a place that could fuel innovation or generate significant growth for the U.S. economy. World events took center stage, the military geared up for war and here at home we hunkered down, fretting over terrorism and looking toward the government to protect us and re-ignite economic growth. Corporate America was the unequivocal...