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...believed the trip was, in fact, "sponsored, organized and paid for by the National Center for Public Policy Research," as DeLay spokesman Dan Allen maintained when the Washington Post first reported the indirect financing arrangement last month. What's more, if the idea for and details of the London leg originated with DeLay's office, that raises questions about possible violations of a House rule governing gifts and travel. The rule allows members to accept gifts, under limited circumstances, but not to solicit them. Allen told TIME he would not comment on any dealings between DeLay's staff and Abramoff...
Long, a geochemist at Michigan State University, is one of a team of scientists who spent eight days last month exploring Lake Superior in the submersible Johnson-Sea-Link II. Their voyage was the first leg of a four-week, $550,000 expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will continue until Aug. 20. Until now researchers have seldom viewed Superior at depths below 200 ft., generally the limit to which scuba divers descend. But using the Sea-Link, they have been able to plunge right to the bottom. The deepest point...
...reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking him after the Nice race. But in the final days before Oslo, the leg felt comfortable and strong, and Cram seemed unworried about any possible reinjury. His victory plan was a simple one: start fast and run Coe into the ground...
...political price of the trade was not lost on Duarte, who held a press conference barely three hours after being reunited with his daughter. Duarte insisted he had the overall support of the armed forces. His detractors, he said, "don't have a leg to stand on when they criticize an attitude which is evidently humane, because it's not just the liberation of Inés and the mayors, it's the concept of humanism, which goes beyond that of a father's." Invoking a Latin courtliness--and coining a few new words--Duarte said, "I never thought the subversives...
With Inter Milan trailing cross-town rival AC Milan 1-0 in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal showdown this week, Inter’s fans quickly spiraled out of control, bombarding the field with flares and other bits of detritus...