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...with the vague assurance that "we've still got trillions of dollars left in the surplus." Aides explained away the slips by saying he was tired. But it was only August, and Bush had been away from home for all of one day. The next morning, as his campaign jet idled on the runway in Des Moines, the Governor strolled back to the press corps and allowed that "I've got to do a better job." Eager for a close race, the media seized on the admission as a sign of disarray. With Gore on the rise, old questions about...
...especially in the warmer summer months. "In fact," says Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, whose satellites have long kept an eye on the polar ice cap, "it happens many, many times every year." Sometimes the openings can be hundreds of miles long, explains the Jet Propulsion Lab's Ronald Kwok, another Arctic observer...
...company last week launched a similar product for kids ages 4 to 6. With the MyBot (price: $50), kids use "smart bricks" to build and personalize airplanes, race cars or robots. These creations respond to movement by flashing lights and making the sounds of, say, tires squealing or a jet taking off. Educators say such toys make kids comfortable with technology from an early age and allow them to learn even as they think they're only playing...
Lieberman is also a top recipient of money from the drug industry--$91,000 in this election. Pfizer, which operates a major research facility in Connecticut, flew him on its corporate jet to a lavish resort in West Virginia, where he spoke at a large drug-company gathering in 1998. This treatment has not kept him from pushing for prescription-drug benefits for Medicare recipients--something the pharmaceutical firms fear will lead to government control of their prices. But Lieberman helped pass an amendment that prevented low-priced generic drugs from being made available to consumers earlier; that has helped...
...state I sometimes think I dreamed the whole thing. On Monday, the newsmagazine covers will feature non-political faces again. Tiger Woods will have won the PGA Championship again. And the only thing left over from Los Angeles will be some souvenir press passes, a few cases of lingering jet lag and an indication of Gore's bounce, or lack of it, to be gleaned from the Sunday night polls...