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...They hunker down. Still so much to say. They have long ago left the smell of the flower behind and are hurtling down streams of consciousness as if taking rapids. Their necks and shoulders are locked. Their hands are disembodied and skitter from left to right like the automatic returns on electric typewriters. Finally, they stop and wait, heads up in bloom...
...congressional investigations that could paralyze both parties. So which will it be? A replay of July, when in one week the White House and Congress moved forward together on welfare reform, health-care portability and raising the minimum wage? Or a bitter trench war in which both sides hunker down, snipe at each other and avoid anything resembling common ground...
...after Bill Clinton won the White House, only to be dashed by the public perception of his arrogance, and a year after Newt Gingrich followed a similar arc, the two men have been given a second chance at governing. But whether the two will create a bipartisan consensus or hunker down into the bitter scorched earth fight that produced gridlock and government shutdown last year remains to be seen. A bipartisan spirit will be needed to tackle the growing problems of campaign-finance reform and reforming entitlements. On the surface, leaders from both sides seem ready to work with...
Despite his shake-up, Johnson oversees a solid operation filled with top portfolio managers. And even as new stars such as Robert Stansky, who took over Magellan, hunker down to chase the Dow, Johnson is orchestrating a three-tiered expansion plan that he hopes will render the vicissitudes of the stock market less meaningful. Part of it involves boosting Fidelity's subsidiary businesses, which range from newspapers (Fidelity owns 117 of them) to limousines and software...
...corner of the cage. Without the mother to keep them warm, the babies soon died. The gene, known as fosB, is probably activated by the sight and smell of baby mice and sets off a host of other chemical and behavioral reactions. Mouse mothers with the fosB gene will hunker down over their young within a minute or two to keep the hairless little mice warm and fed. Humans have the fosB gene too, but it is far to early to tell what effect it has on mothering behavior. "Genetics does have an influence on human behavior," says TIME...