Word: ike
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Gone is the watercooler nation that signed on to the Cold War consensus, sent men to the moon and embraced Ike's ambitious interstate highway system. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty," said Abraham Lincoln at a moment of supreme peril to American democracy, "and we must rise with the occasion." Notice: he said we must rise. But that requires, if nothing else, a sense of shared values. Few paid much attention last December as Southern Republicans in the Senate blocked a $14 billion federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. That lawmakers representing states with nonunion foreign-auto plants...
...studies released this week have moved the ball significantly forward, however. The first, appearing in Science, says the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes will actually decrease during this century but that the most powerful Category 4 and 5 storms will likely double in number. (See pictures of Hurricane Ike sweeping across the Gulf...