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...restaurant is overflowing, both in people and enthusiasm. When Huckabee walked in a few minutes earlier, before he even said a word, everyone spontaneously stood and applauded, as if he had already won something. It was a welcome relief after an hour-long flight through frozen winds on rickety prop planes - one for the candidate and two for the press, including a wood-paneled antique that seated just five. It was also a sharp contrast to the cold shoulder Huckabee received from the journalistic establishment Monday, in one of the oddest press conferences in modern presidential campaign history...
...landed catch, and added about $600 million to a worldwide $26 billion-a-year fishing business. And University of British Columbia researchers calculate that current subsidies for high-sea bottom-trawling amount to just over $150 million, a small fraction of the $30 billion that governments spend yearly to prop up a global fishing industry that produces twice as much as is sustainable. "It's important to nip these subsidies in the bud before more interests get barnacled around them," says University of British Columbia's Rashid Sumaila, who has advised the World Trade Organization on the issue. "Eliminating them...
...pitching in to buy the candidate a book of new ones, but McCain is enthusiastic in telling them, and the tale of the O'Reilly twins is usually met with gales of laughter. From there, he pitched into a surprisingly emotional denouncement of government pork that ends with a prop: "Ronald Reagan once gave me a pen" - holding up a pen. "This isn't it." Laughter. "But I'm going to use [it] to veto any bill with pork that comes across my desk...
Willey eagerly took hold of the baby doll provided by Flanzraich as a prop, gently cradling it and kissing it on the forehead. Frances I. Martel ’09 also gladly accepted the doll, claiming that in embracing it, she hoped to “spread the Undergraduate Council love...
...Graduate School of Education, exhibited incredible strength and flexibility as the dancer and choreographer of “Eat Pray Love.” As the stage lights went up, the audience encountered a large metal hoop suspended from the ceiling. This was the first and only prop of the evening. Dressed in a skintight black bodysuit, Rollins seamlessly moved through a series of contortions reminiscent of her performances with “Cirque du Soleil.” This included flipping in and out of the hoop, hanging by her feet, and spinning wildly with her legs extended. Although...