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...Senator John Kerry Democrat of Massachusetts Imagine being alone in the moonless night, knowing that any sound could mean death, with no margin for mistakes and no second chance. We tried to protect the innocent, but sometimes danger and darkness prevailed. The body counters in Washington didn't care.To them, every dead Vietnamese was Viet Cong. We knew differently. There were literally thousands of cases where shots were fired, bombs dropped and rockets launched without any sure knowledge of the target's capabilities, intentions or age. America's children were plunged overnight into a world of sniper fire, ambushes, buddies...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) ratified its contract earlier this week by an overwhelming margin of approximately 85 percent, according to union treasurer Doneme M. Williams...
...Cheney insists that "good politics is a sound energy policy." But coal has political energy that other fuels can't match. It's plentiful in the political-battleground states of the Midwest and Southeast. West Virginia, the capital of coal, provided Bush his margin of victory in electoral votes and marked a G.O.P. breakthrough. Sources tell TIME that White House political director Ken Mehlman cited Bush's victory in that Democratic presidential stronghold as a reason why he should renounce a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, a major coal pollutant. "The current political climate is the best...
...Respondents were first contacted via e-mail, and if they did not respond, follow-up phone calls were made. In total, the survey reached 372 students, approximately five percent of undergraduates. The maximum margin of error for any single question was approximately five percent and typically less...
When the current downturn ends, though, the $14 billion-a-year image maven faces a much more serious threat on the digital horizon. As prices for digital cameras continue to fall, consumers will abandon film in greater numbers. That means Kodak's high-margin film franchise, which brings in about a third of the company's profits, will bear the brunt of the switch. So even though Kodak has lost some market share over the past few years in a brutal price war launched by Japanese rival Fuji, it still captures a commanding 65% of a sunset business...