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...relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...
...Byrne, on the other hand, gets much more than his usual playing time, peeling off his insulating outerwear when McClintock commits his fourth foul early in the second quarter with the Sharks behind by 21. Byrne has modest skills that are not enough to rescue the drowning hammerheads. Later, over a late supper at Pizza Hut, he says, "I'll probably be gone tomorrow...
...bubble ready to burst. December's new record in housing starts, for example, was nicely matched by the new record in new-home sales - If you build it, they will buy - and even if an economic pickup starts to reduce housing's relative attractiveness, there's no reason why modest economic growth and improved consumer mood can't help sustain housing's strength...
...recruited 173 sedentary, overweight women ages 50 to 75 and put half of them on a five-day-a-week exercise plan, which included such activities as walking, biking and aerobics for about 45 minutes a day. At the end of a year, the women had lost weight--a modest 3 lbs. on average--but, more important, C.T. scans showed they had lost up to 6.9% of the fat in their middles. Nonexercisers, by comparison, neither lost weight nor reduced intra-abdominal...
Democrats, several of whom have unveiled their own more modest proposals, say Bush's economics embrace a central stereotype of the Republican Party: only the rich need apply. Although Bush touted the fact that the average tax bill would shrink $1,083, almost half of all filers would get reductions of less than $100, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400, on average. "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumes Kent Conrad of North Dakota...