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...Randall Roden. "There was some diversity with Indians and Mexicans, but you didn't find them owning oil companies or running them." In the 1950s the Midland Bush knew was prosperous and virtually all white, a town legally segregated just like others in the South. Even now, if you scratch Midland's surface, it's easy to find pockets of good old-fashioned racism, even among old Bush family friends, some of whom on a recent trip were loose with their language. And while Bush never embraced those Midland values, neither was he well known for challenging the way things...
...Belgian social worker. The woman threw herself 27 floors from one of the tallest buildings in Brussels in a determined effort to meet her maker - only to be foiled by the roof of a Volvo. The car somehow cushioned the blow and the woman survived with barely a scratch. The owner of the Volvo now has a real dilemma: The car was only five days old and he can't decide whether to try and get some reimbursement for the car. "I wouldn't want to burden this woman, but it was my car and she wasn't insured." Only...
...Jersey, for huge savings on brand names like Nike and Gap. "BAA McArthurGlen is the pioneer of pan-European outlet shopping," says Clive Minihan, director of the Credo Group, a developer of retail and new-media business in London. Pioneering has paid off. BAA McArthurGlen has grown from scratch to a sizable (revenues of $472.3 million in the fiscal year ending March 31) behemoth that must now contend with upstart rivals trying to match its accomplishments...
Congress is no different than the rest of us when it comes to getting a little weak-kneed for celebrities - remember when Ted "Cat Scratch Fever" Nugent came to sing the praises of bow hunting? But the scene in the packed hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, to discuss the legality of free-music sites like Napster and MP3.com, may have taken the cake...
...make a perfectly sane and emotionally stable artificial consciousness from scratch? Not bloody likely. We should stick with the mindless drones. TOMAS INGUANZO Kalamazoo, Mich...