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...passage, gasoline consumption had risen 48%, to 6.5 million bbl. a day in 1974. In years to follow, even with millions more cars on the highways, consumption remained largely unchanged. Beginning at 7 million bbl. a day in 1976, demand went up and down in a narrow range and by 1991 was at just 7.2 million...
...Still, the Green machine, such as it is, concerns many Democrats. "We've got to get together with them," worries a prominent Democratic fundraiser, who, like many in his party, believes that if Bush is to be beaten, it will be by a very narrow margin. Green Party registration has grown from 200,000 in 2000 to 280,000 now, with the number of Greens elected to various public offices jumping from 80 to 179 in the same period - and this despite the fact that opinion polls consistently show the environment lagging behind the economy, terrorism, education and other issues...
...some respects - Ph.D. potential, for example - I don't make any great claims for Chester. When I would arrive home, I fully expected to find Hugo reading the newspaper. Not Chester. Chester would try to make his way through a narrow sliding door, find himself stuck halfway and then look at me with total and quite genuine puzzlement. I don't think he ever got to understand that the rear part of him was actually attached to the front...
...most other jurisdictions that enforce the death penalty, Delamora would be appealing from death row. And maybe that's not such a terrible thing. After all, at least since 1976, the creaky contraption that is the U.S. death-penalty system has worked, in the most narrow sense: it hasn't executed anyone who later turned out conclusively--through DNA evidence--to be innocent (although it should be noted that states haven't allowed DNA testing in all disputed executions...
...Bush, the door to the heart of Africa lies at the end of a low stone hallway opening into the Atlantic Ocean. Visiting a slave quarters on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal Tuesday, the president traced the stutter steps of countless Africans chained and herded down the narrow passage towards the "Door of No Return," the last point of land they touched before the six month sail to America...