Word: secrets
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...different as these worlds are, they are a part of the same thing. The secret capitals of America...
...country. You don't find anyone this stubborn and proud who didn't get it from a hungry immigrant who came over with empty pockets and big eyes. George Sr.'s father Antonio boarded a boat in Naples in 1893 with nothing but a copy of the family's secret fireworks recipes. Hilly New Castle reminded him of Naples in look and climate--as it did several other Italian pyrotechnicians. So the first thing he did was lock those formulas in a safe, and that is where they are today...
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr lost Webb Hubbell last week and still doesn't have Monica, but he got a consolation prize from the courts on Tuesday: The Secret Service is one step closer to singing. A federal appeals court rejected the service's plea to remain silent and seconded a lower court decision that if a previously nonexistent "protective function privilege" should indeed exist to keep presidential security tight, it is up to Congress to create...
...Republican Congress is unlikely to bail Clinton out. But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that although the White House will rue the decision for selfish reasons, the Secret Service is genuinely worried about future presidents ducking out of agents' earshot -- and into danger. "They sincerely think the next assassination of a president will be on Ken Starr's hands," he says. For that reason, an appeal to the Supreme Court seems likely -- and that of course would be fine with the White House; that court is on break until October...
Part of what makes these books so popular--despite all the exclamation points--is that they give dieters a single key, or "secret," on which to focus their efforts. The conventional prescription for losing weight--step up your exercise, eat more fruits and vegetables and fiber, cut down on saturated fats and calories--is just so hard! How much easier it seems to blame America's epidemic of obesity on "rising insulin levels...