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...himself having coffee one morning last week with nine party activists at Mr. C's Family Restaurant in Knoxville, a speck of an Iowa town that boasts the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. With embattled Congressman Leonard Boswell at his elbow, Gephardt implored the faithful to pour on the energy: "Iowa literally has the ability to tell us who will control the House." But a man eating breakfast nearby was thinking about the campaign after that. As Gephardt strode out, the Rev. Peter Peterson of Knoxville's United Methodist Church offered his Bible and asked Gephardt...
...American rail system make three key arguments: 1) Amtrak is hopeless; 2) building a viable rail system - upgrading old roadbeds and laying new track, clearing new right of way, buying new equipment - could cost as much as $100 billion; and 3) it would be irresponsible for government to pour so much money into a service that the market has shown it will not support. People don't ride the trains as it is, the critics say; that's why the railroads are dying...
...himself having coffee one morning last week with nine party activists at Mr. C's Family Restaurant in Knoxville, a speck of an Iowa town that boasts the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. With embattled Congressman Leonard Boswell at his elbow, Gephardt implored the faithful to pour on the energy: "Iowa literally has the ability to tell us who will control the House." But a man eating breakfast nearby was thinking about the campaign after that. As Gephardt strode out, the Rev. Peter Peterson of Knoxville's United Methodist Church offered his Bible and asked Gephardt...
...pervasive is diet-pill proliferation that no government can offer blanket protection, least of all to a public that wants desperately to believe it can lose weight without willpower. The popular media pour on the pressure to be thin. Diet aids (non-deadly ones) are heavily advertised throughout the region, often with the endorsements of pop singers and TV personalities, like Takuya Kimura in Japan, Chen Liping in Singapore and Shirley Cheung Yuk-san in Hong Kong. Says Hidehiko Sekizawa, head of Japanese research group Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living: "Japanese people are not yet obese in the American...
BOSTON—Big science needs big money, and Harvard Medical School has plenty of both. Last year, over $185 million in research money poured into its sprawling laboratories in Boston and a dizzying number of scientific breakthroughs continue to pour out. Now, University President Lawrence H. Summers wants to capitalize on those breakthroughs by calling in the capitalists and using Harvard’s scientific might to foster a new Silicon Valley for the life sciences. The revolution in microchips will be followed by one in genes and proteins, Summers argues, and Harvard needs to be at the forefront...