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...North Carolina. In other districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation's No. 1 target in the whole country was Arizona's John David Hayworth Jr., who is outsize in other ways also (he is 6 ft. 5 in. and 285 lb., with a voice and swagger to match). J.D., as he loves to be called, fired back by denouncing the "union bosses" for trying to buy the election for Phoenix lawyer Steve Owens, whom Hayworth called a "carpetbagger." Though Clinton has become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Arizona since...
...Mars Global Surveyor, which NASA will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price...
...predicts that "some of today's newborns will become tomorrow's super-predators" unless we start punishing juvenile criminals as if they were adults. Most states, he happily notes, already have the option of trying bad kids in grownup courts and imprisoning them right along with the 200-lb. child molesters...
...musculature and (especially in the cuddlier stages) incontinence and all-around fumble-thumbed incompetence. Hence the need to set childhood off from adulthood as a condition requiring major investments of resources and energy on the part of all who have survived it. Making full-blown humans out of 7-lb. lumps of flesh is not a job for a slow-witted species: it takes a village, as the lady said, not a village idiot...
...been spending a lot of time in Harvard's libraries: the quiet, dimly lit nooks and crannies of Hilles, the clattering shelves of Pusey, the musty corners of Widener. Every so often I get sidetracked, especially if it's in an interesting part of the PS (American literature) or LB (education) sections or if it's late at night in the Widener stacks and I'm tired of carrying books up and down floors. I'll toss down my backpack, sit on the floor in my jeans, and explore the wonders in front...