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...village in southern China for Sacramento, California, in search of his father, who had disappeared during the building of the transcontinental railroad. At about the same time, Letticie Pruett's family crossed America in a covered wagon and homesteaded in Oregon. By the late 1890s, after years of manual labor, Fong See owned the Curiosity Bizarre, which manufactured underwear for brothels. Letticie had run away from home and ended up in Sacramento. When no one would hire a single, uneducated woman, she drifted into Chinatown and the Curiosity Bizarre, where she begged Fong See for a job. He hired...
...finally wised up and started entering information directly on my PC. I figured that when I was done, I could just copy it into the Vista using the cable and synching software that came with it. I figured wrong. Plagued with error messages, I pored over the useless manual and misleading online troubleshooting suggestions on the Royal website--to no avail. Not until I got a replacement unit and downloaded a new file online was I able to get the thing to work right. Even then, the Vista had so many quirks and bugs--names would get truncated, strange error...
When the human genome was sequenced last year, scientists finally gained access to the full text of God's reference manual: the 3 billion biochemical "letters" that spell out our tens of thousands of genes. These genes, strung out along the 46 chromosomes in virtually every human cell, carry the instructions for making all the tissues, organs, hormones and enzymes in our body...
...Governor of what state signed a 1997 law saying that in close elections, manual recounts are preferable to electronic recounts and that hanging and dimpled chads should be counted...
...Supreme Court have made in recent years, I defend their right to make them. We absolutely need a court that will protect individual rights from majority rule and help interpret laws with conflicting provisions. I find that the Florida legislature has enacted laws that allow for manual recounts but do not provide deadlines with enough time to do such recounts. Perhaps the Florida Supreme Court is rewriting election laws, but someone must deal with the flaws that the Florida legislature has left us with. RONALD R. BRUCE Orwigsburg...