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...projects that sound like red alerts on Fox News: a plan for military-cemetery headstone-straightening was scrapped, as was a request for a $10,000 refrigerator to house fish sperm in South Dakota. Gone too was $7 million for Interior Department aircraft to study bird migration. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood persuaded the governor of Ohio to redirect $57 million for future road-project planning to immediate construction. Cities and states were told to stay away from swimming-pool construction and anything with the word golf in it - Frisbee golf, clock golf, minigolf. "The Frisbee people are going...
...Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is the very definition of "anything," although in this case, since the movie is being released in 3-D, it's a more expensive anything. It is the third in a series of stories revolving around a mammoth named Manny (Ray Romano) and his friends Diego the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo). Sid is a sloth, although a parent undereducated in the Ice Age franchise could be forgiven for spending the first half-hour of the movie mystified as to what this ugly thing is supposed to be. In a sitcom, which...
...Ellie encourages Manny to go talk it over with the big cat. He resists, with the usual Ray Romano combination of whining and immaturity. "Guys don't talk to guys about guy problems," he tells her, exactly the stereotype every modern parent wants to see perpetuated in their small children's entertainment...
...Health Lessons from Europe" with the usual delight and guilt-ridden schadenfreude typical of us expats who enjoy the health-care system here [June 1]. Fourteen years ago, I received a letter from the Sécurité Sociale informing me that I had to book a pelvic X-ray for my then newborn daughter - or risk losing out on future reimbursements and coverage. Several days later, when the results revealed everything to be normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed with a problematic pelvis. Not many, I was told. However, she continued, the government reasoned that...
...corridors for HSR funding: three in the heavily populated Northeast (where the quasi-high-speed Acela train is already in use), then the Southeast coast, Florida, the upper Gulf Coast, the Midwest (dubbed the Chicago Hub), Texas (South Central), the Pacific Northwest and California. Of those, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has pointed to California and Florida as being "way ahead of the curve" in terms of preparing for HSR. Florida, for example, already did most of the spade work, including land acquisition and environmental-impact and ridership studies before Bush quashed its first HSR effort five years ago. Californians...