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When crisis strikes, it has often been Congress’s knee-jerk reaction to accept whatever the executive branch has to offer. The Patriot Act and the Iraq War are a couple of recent examples, and the trend continues today. The current financial crisis is an issue that strikes at the hearts—and pocketbooks—of every American, and is sending Congress into panic mode again. It seems that few predicted a worsening crisis after the subprime bubble months ago, listening to President George W. Bush’s serene conviction that everything was going smoothly...
...months later, Hatch was a Harvard student and spent his year in Cambridge practicing with the JV squad.Following his freshman year, Hatch took a leave of absence to go on his Mormon mission, traveling to Chile. While playing in a pickup soccer game there, Hatch tore ligaments in his knee, which forced him to cut short his trip and return to the U.S. for surgery. While rehabbing at home, he re-established contact with Crowton, who had gotten a job as the offensive coordinator at LSU. After rehab and a tryout, Hatch became a scholarship quarterback...
...sort of culture we've become, one that's disposable, that runs on unthinking convenience. Chameides shows that what we really need to do is simply slow down and think about the waste we're creating, and the easy ways to reduce it, before we end up knee deep in our own garbage. "People ask me, 'Why are you doing this?'" he says. "It's because I want to know more about what my waste footprint is. I don't want to be part of the problem, but part of the solution." That's a sentiment that even average Americans...
...nation's first-ever televised presidential debate in 1960, a pre-debate debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy began almost immediately. The candidates haggled over format, location, even dressing rooms, but in the end, the medium trumped the message. Sick with the flu and hobbled by a knee injury, Nixon looked pale and sweaty--an image that stuck with viewers far longer than his words...
RECONSTRUCTIVE KNEE SURGERY About 80,000 ACLs tear annually. Girls are up to eight times as likely to suffer the injury, which sidelined Tiger Woods in June