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...military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb...
...alternative that's easy to listen to. I think we're more like bands that came out of the '70s, and that's why we're hard to define--because I'm a woman, and those bands had male singers. If you can think of one band, there's Jefferson Airplane, but we don't sound like Jefferson Airplane...
Clinton linked himself to America's heroes, suggesting that a vote for him honored the ideas of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln, the optimism of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and the commitment to the future espoused by John F. Kennedy...
Andre Marrou, Libertarian Party: The Libertarian party is governed by Thomas Jefferson's principle, "That government is best which governs least." Marrou believes America's problems can not be solved under the Democrats or Republicans...
...hundred and fifty new members of Congress are likely to descend on the nation's capital next year. And it's quite possible that some may even resemble the fictional Jefferson Smith, a naive forest ranger who managed a boys camp before becoming senator and accidentally taking down the political machine that ran his big Western state...