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...During your presidency, your energy policies were not very popular. Would the country be in better shape if we had adopted the policies you endorsed? -Ronald McGee, Anchorage Yes, of course. When I was elected, we were importing 9 million bbl. of oil per day. Within just a few years, we ?reduced that to 7 million bbl. per day. Now we're back up to 13 million...
...distance of about 10 meters in the prison yard. It was a vast departure from the old "we don't deal with terrorists" line of the Bush Administration and early commanders of the U.S. occupation, but quite in keeping with the spirit of a new counterinsurgency strategy taking shape across Iraq that has not only reached out to insurgents but enlisted them in a fight against Shi'ite and Sunni radicals alike...
...next morning came and went without incident. U.S. troops patrolled the town without being attacked. The parade, which the Americans never took seriously, never took shape. You win some, you lose some, U.S. soldiers joked. Still, nearly a week has passed without violence in Haswah. Meanwhile, the detainees remain in custody and tips from the community keep pouring in in the wake of the recent bust. On Wednesday, U.S. troops in the area were led to a cache of more than 100 copper disks, the deadly projectile component of EFPs. Military officials say it was one of the largest...
...Harvard. “We haven’t had half the practices that this team has had and half the practices that other teams that are not Ivy League schools have had,” Vaillancourt noted. “But I think we are in pretty good shape.” The top line of Vaillancourt, sophomore transfer Anna McDonald, and freshman Liza Ryabkina provided the heftiest offensive output, as five of Harvard’s eight total scores involved some combination of the three. “Offensively, the great thing about them is that all three...
...home island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean starting in 1598.The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder then for food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment,” according to Clara...