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...cookery: The Food Network siren has patented a citrus press, nesting bowls and six other items. Our request: a tool for keeping sexily tossed hair out of the soup...
...onus on Iraqi officials to secure their country while announcing a hike in U.S. troop strength and contending that the U.S. cannot afford to fail. House and Senate Democrats put forward plans to rein him in through the pressure of a bipartisan resolution and harsh scrutiny of the budget request for what they called an "escalation." However, White House officials say the President will not be deterred. They know that Democrats will not cut off funds if doing so could hurt troops, and the Democrats admit their resolution is nonbinding...
...hard one for them--but the same cannot be said about the doctors. For the 40-member ethics committee of Seattle Children's Hospital, "it took time to get past the initial response--Wow, this is bizarre--and think seriously about the reasons for the parents' request," says Diekema, who chairs the bioethics committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics and was brought in to consult on this case...
Greene wrote that at a meeting held “early in 1909,” each member of the Corporation was asked to mention “a name he had heard advocated, or which he cared to mention.” That request elicited 24 names, which Greene wrote down in pencil on three small sheets on paper. Greene included these papers—which he called “memorandum”—in his letter to the library...
...open battle with Bush. Even Leahy's office holds out little hope of rolling back Bush's wiretapping program. And Reid's non-binding resolution on Iraq will do nothing to slow the reported imminent deployment of more troops to Baghdad. By the time the Administration's request for emergency funds for the war comes through next month, opponents of the surge will be in the position of having to vote against money for troops already in a war zone. And even the most outspoken critics of the Bush White House know that's a losing proposition...