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...runs again, as expected, Towle says the 93-year-old legislator would be favored to win. "Even if the voters are worried about his age or his health, that does not mean they'll vote against him," she adds. Thurmond is a few weeks away from becoming the oldest member of Congress ever, and he would be 100 years old at the end of an eighth term. Many from beyond South Carolina's borders have trouble understanding how Thurmond, who vehemently fought against forced "race mixing" in the '60s, can remain so popular. Towle points out that Thurmond's record...
Scientists, too, value amber. Trapped within the translucent, usually gold-colored substance are some of the most ancient examples of certain species known to science. The oldest ants, moths, stingless bees, caterpillars, termites, mushrooms and pollen grains, some of them dating back tens of millions of years, have been found in amber. And unlike ordinary fossils, which are relatively crude rock molds of prehistoric life forms, these specimens are often perfectly preserved, with the most delicate features intact...
...York City's American Museum of Natural History has announced a find he calls "scientifically the most important of all amber fossils." It's three tiny flowers, probably from an oak tree, that date to the age of the dinosaurs, some 90 million years ago. That makes them the oldest intact flowers ever found in amber, and an important clue to the origin of the flowering plants that now dominate the earth...
...years of gain by the non-rich in America and devastatingly compromises our personal economic security, our environment, our Internet and all our public assets as the voices of Thomas Jefferson's and Franklin D. Roosevelt's and John F. Kennedy's followers are stilled within the world's oldest political party...
...could outshine the father; Malcolm, who twice tried and failed to win the Governor's race in New Jersey, called the presidency the "Holy Grail" of American politics. "When I first met Steve," recalls his friend Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and author, "I said, 'I get it--the oldest-son reaction to Dad. Dad is colorful; Steve is sedate. Dad is a showman; Steve is reticent. In time I changed my view. The fact is, Steve has always held views that were daring. He's every bit as colorful, but it's all inside, not as showy. There...