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...poll, Vermont Governor Howard Dean received the most votes, with Senator John F. Kerry, D-M.A., and Ret. General Wesley Clark coming in second and third place, respectively. A specific tally of votes was not released...
...military official that "soldiers do this stuff all the time, everywhere. It's warfare" ?that is a total cop-out. How can we aspire to be the leader of the world if we can't even organize and properly lead our military personnel? Jon C. McKenzie Captain, U.S.N. (ret.) Fairfax...
...Tour, 20 km north of the Gulf of St. Tropez, Jean-Louis had his house hewn out of a rock cliffside so fire would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters...
...inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute and Donald Bruce of the Church of Scotland; legal scholar Bartha Knoppers; brain scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Lieut. General Paul Van Riper, U.S.M.C. (ret.); futurist Paul Saffo; Whole Earth cataloger Stewart Brand; venture capitalists Christopher Meyer and Steve Jurvetson; and two of my favorite science writers (outside of my own staff, of course), Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Matt Ridley (Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters...
...ninth match in six days of tournament action, Wang lost to Jien Jacobs, a sophomore from California, 6-1, 1-0 (ret.). Wang retired in the second set due to a back injury...