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Ward grabbed her fourth win of the afternoon with a win in the 400 freestyle relay, anchoring the team of Anna Fraser, Jessi Walter and Jane Humphries to a win by the narrowest of margins...
...Americans are expecting their lawmakers to show a sense of purpose that matches the moment, the message doesn't seem to be getting through. Nowhere is the disconnect more evident than in the "economic stimulus" bill that passed the House on the narrowest of party-line votes last week. The idea is to give the economy a badly needed jolt by getting businesses to hire and consumers to spend. But nearly three-quarters of the $100 billion tab would go toward corporate tax breaks, which might carry weight with political ideologues or help pay off campaign contributors but will...
...railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have to be laid from the strait to Fairbanks, Alaska (about 750 miles of track), and then...
...behemoth has been marooned in the Black Sea waiting to be towed to Macau, where it's slated to become a floating casino. Turkey won't let it go?ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder...
...Korea. Last week, he reversed that position, reportedly under parental guidance. In the same spirit, President Bush may want to recognize that the hostility he faces in Europe is directed not just at his policy positions, but also at the perceived arrogance of a Republican administration, elected by the narrowest possible margin, imagining it can simply negate or ignore everything that happened since it was last in power...