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...Vice President Dick Cheney decided that Katharine Armstrong, owner of the land on which he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, was the best person to tell the press about the event [Feb. 27]. Cheney handpicked someone who had potentially serious liability issues to give the story to the media even before the President was informed. The disclosure that Cheney and his friends were hunting from their cars without proper licenses adds a smarmy exclamation point to another display of his arrogance and disregard for the law. Ed Vecchio Huber Heights, Ohio...
...Time said the pairs figure-skating team of Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao "nabbed the silver." Nabbed indeed. Zhang Hao flung his partner into the air with all the grace of a stevedore hurling a sack of cement onto a ship. That Zhang Dan didn't sustain a more serious injury is a miracle. Zhang Hao's seeming disregard for the safety of his partner was nothing but a savage show of physical strength and should have been heavily penalized by the judges, no matter how the couple executed their moves after the chuck. You describe their victory...
Like many other doctors, Silber and Sweet believe all sleeping pills are overprescribed and note that physicians may be giving their patients the heavily marketed drugs they ask for in order to focus what's left of their increasingly abbreviated office visit on more serious complaints...
...serious is the problem? Tiny. The 4,600 affected tests were 0.8% of the 495,000 taken that day. Only 16 tests were underscored 200 points or more; 95% of the scores were 10 to 90 points too low. Those will be fixed, but the 600 scores that were too high won't be adjusted. "The SAT has been around since 1926," notes the College Board's Chiara Coletti. "In that time there hasn't ever been an error of this kind...
...went to war in Iraq. The reason was oil. His thinking goes this way. Geologists disagree about how long it will take before world production peaks, but not by much. Optimists give it 30 years, pessimists say five or 10. For a while in the 1970s the U.S. got serious, sort of, about energy conservation. Then it switched paths, driving an SUV right down the new one. Iraq, which nationalized its oil fields in the '70s, offered the prospect of a state with sizable reserves. For years American oil companies had their eyes on them. Then George W. Bush came...