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...White House admits it has no grand strategy for pushing its climate-change initiatives on Capitol Hill, other than to wait for the evolving science and climbing temperatures to overwhelm the critics. Instead the Administration is concentrating on energy efficiency, which President Clinton calls a "win-win" approach, arguing that it is a win for the environment as well as the economy. But it also has political drawbacks--offending such traditional Democratic constituencies as the miners who could lose their jobs if the demand for coal drops, and rallying the opposition of powerful industries like oil and the utilities, which...
...officer requests our IDs. Hoping to buy my companions some time, I hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands...
Battling cancer with immune-system transplants is a straightforward--if searing--procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that...
...officer requests our IDs. Hoping to buy my companions some time, I hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands...
...worth it? "If you lined her up against the 10 best athletes in the NCAA, she doesn't overwhelm you with her muscles," says pro-basketball coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline. "But her mental capacity to play in the big games, to compete at the highest level--and never lose--is unique. Some people compete when it's convenient. Chamique steps up when her team needs her." In a Jordannaire display in January, she and her team put an end to the 54 home-game winning streak of archrival University of Connecticut--with Holdsclaw scoring 25 points even though debilitated...