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...Peel and vivisect eggs...
...decided that you had to go beyond offering passive services like shelters and actually reach out. When you peel away the layers, you find that a family is broken up or they've had a nervous breakdown or they have a permanent personality disorder that keeps them from holding a job. It's never as simple as just housing. It's going to require some real skill in outreach...
...raves inspired by her congressional testimony a month earlier, an indication perhaps of how much the Administration's support has slipped. In any case, Clinton's lieutenants are prepared to make additional modifications in their plan to win votes away from the alternatives. "We're hoping to peel off some people from the left, some from the center and some from the center-right," says one strategist, who writes off only the most conservative Republicans as unwooable...
...discovery, says British scientist David Peel, co-author of one of the reports, is "staggering." Worldwide temperature shifts of a few degrees over half a century -- the kind envisioned in theories of global warming -- would disrupt weather patterns, change sea levels and be difficult for animal and plant life to adjust to. The changes Peel measured, though, are roughly three times as severe and rapid...
...have to peel back the layers a little bit," agrees House Committee Chair Michael A. Jobst...