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...reason politicians seem so dorky is that other than the filibuster, there aren't any cool parliamentary procedures. But the ultimate move--the one that's making Aaron Sorkin even more upset that he won't be writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms...
With consecutive victories over top-25 opponents in recent weeks, Harvard sophomore Courtney Bergman had been rolling en route to this year’s NCAA women’s singles championships, but one injury brought her momentum to a halt on Monday...
...clothes police agency in the West Bank--not to cooperate with the security chief. And Fatah's militant arm, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, released a communique in which it stated that it refused to comply with Abbas' and Dahlan's calls for an end to terrorism. "We will not halt our resistance," it read, "as long as the occupation of our land continues...
...more and offer us less and less," says Bill Parker, president of UAW Local 1700 in Detroit and head of a Chrysler work force. In theory, Detroit could emulate the transplants and set up nonunionized shops in the South, but the UAW would probably bring assembly operations to a halt...
...process that eventually destroys an infected cell. A study of SARS? genetic structure suggests the coronavirus needs an enzyme called protease to make copies of itself, which is how the virus spreads inside a victim. Create a drug that neutralizes the protease enzyme, and you may be able to halt the disease in its tracks...