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...Certainly the White House doesn't sound too worried. Grilled on the subject of rising pump prices Wednesday, press secretary Ari Fleischer dismissed the idea and drily referred reporters to his boss' energy legislation (including ANWR drilling) as a way to reduce the American dependence on foreign oil - perhaps the Senate should consider passing...
MIND OVER MUSCLE About 30% of bypass patients suffer from what doctors call "pump head," a mental fog that physicians have long blamed on the heart-lung machine. The device pumps blood through the body when surgeons stop the heart in order to operate on it. Lately doctors have tried to avoid the problem by performing more bypasses on the heart while it is still beating. When researchers compared such "off pump" patients to those who have been on the heart-lung machine, however, they found no difference in memory, attention and motor skills one year after surgery...
...What we are hoping to do is work with our current budget and see what would be the most effective way to enhance different aspects of Springfest,” Lee says. “We are all going to agree together what aspects we want to pump up, and that’s when [Summers’ office] will step...
...just got bored. So I quit, cold turkey, and vowed to lift nothing heavier than a pint of Ben & Jerry's and jog only as far as the corner Blockbuster. After two years of blissful lethargy, however, the guilt finally sank in. I refused to hit the treadmill or pump iron. Instead I found a way to get fit that is a lot more fun and could even grow into a hot new sport in the coming era of global warming: snowboarding and skiing--without the snow...
...bread with his wife in the open square in front of the mosque. "They are asking for 500 riyals ($145) for a room in the hotels," he says. "It's nice enough here, and in a little while we'll move into the mosque and sleep." While pilgrims pump an estimated $1.5 billion into the local economy during the Hajj, the Saudi government spends an additional $1 billion, both on infrastructure and to keep the pilgrims alive. Government agencies and private Saudi companies distribute some 10 million mineral-water bottles, 1 million hot meals, and tons of fresh fruit...