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Then how does the so-called active ingredient of homeopathic brews work? Well, say the homeopaths (with straight faces), during the shaking process, which they call succussion, a "memory" of the original active ingredient is somehow retained by the surrounding solution. Sheer mumbo jumbo without a shred of evidence, say most scientists...
That first hour of results, projected by CNN on a jumbo screen to the gathering, looked promising for Bush, as he jumped to an early lead in the Electoral College with a series of victories...
...crowd was not visibly affected, cheering loudly for the first glimpses of Bush shown on the jumbo screen, who was watching the incoming results with wife Laura Bush and his parents, Barbara and former President George H. W. Bush...
...crowd in Nashville transformed from morose to re-energized, the Austin gathering watching on the jumbo screen murmured in confusion and disbelief...
...Bush as soft on taxes, like his father. To counter that, Bush proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt. Bush went on to win the nomination, of course, but he's still lugging around his tax-cut plan. And McCain's criticism stuck...