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...good news is, you're here, you're looking good. The bad news is, you've got an aneurysm in your brain. You've had it for a hundred years, so it's nothing to worry about--but it's very serious, so we'll have to get rid of it right away." He's a funny guy. I was supposed to go to Nashville to do some recording, so I went down there...
...price of gasoline and heating oil, then go before cameras to discuss the outlook. The White House is trying to make it clear that Bush is getting into the nitty gritty of post-Katrina operations. "The president asked a lot of questions about how they're going about getting rid of that debris," press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Sunday after a briefing in Baton Rouge. "The president asked more about the 9th Ward, and the searches that had gone on there; where they were in terms of the progress of doing the searches of all the homes in that...
...building a light-water reactor "at an appropriate time." (Light-water reactors produce fewer materials that can be used in nuclear weapons than other types.) Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill told reporters at a briefing that the U.S. would consider the light-water reactor issue "when North gets rid of its nuclear weapons and all of its existing programs and gets back into the NPT with good standing with IAEA safeguards...
...evacuation order. "I don't need much," he says. "I got 12 gallons of water in the house. I got those Army meals they handing out--pork and beans, Cajun beans. I got Chef Boyardee too. This city will be better when they rebuild because they'll be rid of a lot of them knuckleheads that was causing the problems here before...
...registration here, as he did at Yale a few years ago. The transition makes sense for several reasons. First, online registration is much more cost-effective than in-person registration. Online registration eliminates the expense of paying for retired teachers and others to oversee the process; it also gets rid of the high cost of paying workers to stuff almost 10,000 envelopes, and saves those same people from the extreme tedium of such a task...