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...importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Klein to examine our President's actions rather than his words. Sandy Krawitz Bethesda, Maryland...
...launch was delayed for two days by high winds-first at Cape Canaveral, where they threated the Atlas V rocket, and then, improbably, by a storm that knocked out power to the control center in Maryland. But the New Horizons mission finally lifted off successfully on Thursday, en route to a 2015 encounter with Pluto...
...importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for Klein to examine our President's actions rather than his words. Sandy Krawitz Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. Modern-Day Deities Re James Poniewozik's article "The Year Of Charitainment" on charitably active celebrities [Dec. 26-Jan. 2]: Those stars are to us what the ancients used to regard as angels or gods. In the midst of the congestion of issues and concerns of modern life, celebrities...
...buying influence was only part of Abramoff's enterprise. All along, he was taking his cut and financing projects of his own, including a religious academy in Maryland where he sent his children and a sniper school for Israelis on the West Bank. His three Washington restaurants, now closed, were hemorrhaging money, and he was always working on a half-baked business idea, such as starting an indoor lacrosse league or a ferry service across the Potomac. "Jack lived pretty much right at his means," says a former associate who was familiar with his personal finances. "He never saved money...
...Ebola and plague, which may be stockpiled and used only in an emergency. Biodefense is "not attractive to Big Pharma, which is making money off things we use a few times a day," says Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. Companies are also leery of huge liability risks if biodefense vaccines and treatments are administered to wide swaths of the population. As for that $5.6 billion that is supposed to be allocated over 10 years? It's a pittance, given that the average cost of bringing a new drug...