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...ease himself out of his grief, Miller began working at a retirement community and writing a question-and-answer column for seniors for the Norman Transcript, the town's newspaper. "I started doing it just for fun, as a little p.r. plug for the retirement community," says Miller. But when he began doing research, Miller discovered there was a real problem with the quality of information available to seniors. "A lot of what's out there is heavy and complicated, especially when you get into wills and trusts and Medicare," he says. "My column is not an advice column...
Police officials said that the masters asked them to pull the plug on the foam-covered revelry because of concerns about overcrowding...
...forces move to envelope Baghdad in a vise grip, a second battle for Baghdad rages off-camera, sometimes with equal ferocity: The struggle to determine by whom, and under what authority, Iraq will be governed once the coalition pulls the plug on Saddam Hussein's regime. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld is reportedly urging President Bush to install a "provisional government" of Iraqi exiles who "share the president's objectives for a free Iraq." The U.S. may not even wait for Saddam's ouster; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said Thursday that rather than fight street-by-street...
Johnson has also been a spark plug to his linemates, Moore and junior winger Kenny Turano...
...restrictions they rejected so strongly five months ago. Instead of arguing on principle that knowledge is morally neutral, the Journal Editors and Authors Group accepted the government’s contention that “sensitive” research should be suppressed. Instead of a federal agent pulling the plug, it will be the editor of a journal. But the result in both cases is the same. Important information that could help scientists develop defenses to bioterrorism is suppressed because of the fear that such information could be used by al Qaeda...