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DIED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of four Superman movies, who became even better known for his inspiration and activism after a 1995 horse-riding accident left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. Reeve won the Superman role in 1977 after a brief stage career and a single bit part in a film, and gave the character strength, romance and, as alter ego Clark Kent, a deft comic touch. After his accident, Reeve became a powerful spokesman for spinal-injury victims, advocating the use of fetal stem cells for medical research...
...MOUNT ST. HELENS The hyperactive volcano is threatening to blow its top again. Here's how scientists monitor the fireworks...
That is where the Bush campaign stands now, neck-deep in nyah-nyah negative country, especially when it comes to defending the President's collapsed rationale for going to war with Iraq. It was no accident that Bush did a (pre-eruption) Mount St. Helens imitation during the foreign-policy part of the debate. The domestic-policy section was fascinating--in part, because we hadn't heard the two men debate these issues before and also because Bush had a comprehensible, if questionable, philosophy: lower taxes, smaller government. And in part because Kerry indulged in some serious baloney slicing...
This elicited a Mount St. Helens protest from Democrats. "It is completely inappropriate and dangerous," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, "for the Vice President to in effect threaten the American people, to be part of instilling fear into our country." John Edwards declared that "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line" because "protecting America from vicious terrorists" is not a partisan issue...
...authorities, who believe he helped purchase a boat for bin Laden. DIED CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of the Superman movies, who became even better known for his inspiration and activism after a 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. He became a powerful spokesman for spinal-cord injuries, including the use of fetal stem cells for medical research, while continuing to work in films as an actor and director. DIED GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection...