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...equality all the way to Lagos. On a speaking tour, Gore said greater women's empowerment would curb war, corruption and chaos. "Men of quality are not threatened by the emancipation of women," he added. But it was Gore's laugh lines that got the local media going. "Amid rib-cracking jokes, Gore spoke on a variety of issues, bordering on mother's supremacy, perfect marriage partners, cultural diversity and his life outside the American presidency," the Guardian writes. Example: His take on the economic downturn: "I was the first to be laid off on the 1st of January...
...Donnell did not compete due to a rib injury, but was impressed with his team’s performance...
...would think that someone like Naldur would be ready to sign up for his game cards, given the toll bronco busting is taking on his body. Last year the school psychologist from Layton, Utah, broke a rib and a leg, ruptured his spleen, separated his shoulder and suffered a concussion. Each time he taped himself up and got back on the horse a few days later. "Every autumn I have a retirement party," Naldur says. "Then in spring the snow melts, the flowers bloom, and I realize nothing's really changed except I'm one year older." His wife Mazie...
...That $18 billion in increased military spending? Prime rib. Mmm. Voters love it. "The biggest increase in military spending since Ronald Reagan was commander-in-chief," Bush bragged to a very receptive gathering of the American Legion in San Antonio. "I will not permit any course that leaves America undefended." And you know that includes missile defense, some pay raises and increased health benefits for military folk, and "building the military of the future...
...into a functioning organ--at which point the scaffold dissolves away. Langer foresees the day when scientists will be able to grow a new liver or pancreas for patients waiting for scarce donor organs. Skin grown using Langer's principles has been approved by the FDA, and cartilage for rib cages is in clinical trials...