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...America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none of the rocket scientists at NASA saw it coming. A sizable proportion of military deaths in Iraq were caused not even by enemy combat but by accident, human error, friendly fire...
...much of her premakeover existence, Tammy Guthrie, 41, a mother of three in St. Petersburg, Fla., was a drab, weary homemaker in sweat pants and a T shirt. Then the Hollywood fairies intervened. They gave her a bright porcelain smile, a sassy California hairdo, a neck lift, a face-lift and, at least for a while, a bold new attitude that revved up her relationship with her husband Wally. "Our romance had really waned over the years," she says. Wally felt as if he were having an affair in the weeks that followed Tammy's return, but since then things...
...money supply to Boswell, Dean was sending a signal to the Democratic Party establishment on Capitol Hill--especially Southern Democrats--which may have some misgivings about the prospect of a presidential ticket headed by an antiwar nominee from the liberal Northeast. The meaning was clear: My rising tide can lift your boat too. Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, says the former Governor is considering making similar share-the-wealth offers to dozens of other Democratic lawmakers and candidates. To those Democrats who might be thinking of starting an Anyone-but-Dean movement, Dean is sending a none-too-subtle...
...power to transform the country - but does he have the vision? Watch these crucial areas: PRESIDENT TILL 2011?: Up for re-election in March 2004, Putin insists he has no plans to amend the constitution to change the presidential term from four to seven years - or lift the two-term limit. Allies and adversaries alike predict he will. SATELLITE STATES: Putin would like to pull back into Russian orbit the small nations that broke away from the U.S.S.R. in 1991. The prize: Georgia - tiny, strategic, near bankrupt and chaotic. One problem: the U.S. insists that it is committed...
...talk coincided with the presentation of an exhibit of Maltzan’s work—“Lift,” which consists of the designs and models for these same projects—currently on display in Gund Hall...