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...President was hard to read, the White House decision-making process was even more mysterious. Each time O'Neill tried to gather data, sift facts and insert them into the system for debate, he would find discussion sheared off before it could get going. He tried to build fiscal restraint into Bush's tax plan but was thwarted by those who believed, as he says, that "tax cuts were good at any cost." He was losing debates before they had begun. The President asked for a global-warming plan one minute and then while it was being formulated, announced that...
Just how and when this happened is still a mystery, but no one is better qualified to sift through the widely scattered clues than McGovern, a skilled scientific sleuth who wields the most powerful tools of modern chemistry in his search for the roots of ancient wines. In 1996, for example, his lab created a stir by finding dried traces of wine in 7,500-year-old jugs that hailed from the Zagros Mountains of present-day Iran. A few years later his lab identified some of the key constituents in a funerary feast held in about...
...used to “meet new people to date,” to “make new friends,” and, just in case you associate with the socially inept, “to help your friends make new friends.” Users sift through Friendster profiles, reading testimonials and looking at touched-up photos in search of that special someone...
...team of 66 FBI personnel is working closely with Saudi authorities as they sift through the debris at the wrecked compounds. Sources say the Saudis, who did not cooperate effectively with U.S. law enforcement after earlier attacks inside Saudi Arabia involving Americans, are being helpful this time. Saudi officials have been conducting an exercise in damage control on American TV, telling the world they will crack down on terrorism and its financing as never before. The Saudis publically announced last week that the al-Haramein Foundation had been ordered to close eight of its foreign offices and that its charitable...
...NASA reconstruct the debris trail of the shuttle Columbia. More than 3,000 eyewitnesses--half of them amateur astronomers, many of whom had GPS markers that pinpointed their location--phoned in reports. "These people are our heroes," says Paul Hill, a NASA flight director whose job it was to sift through all the witness reports. "There are 15 to 20 of them who were key to our being able to do our analysis...