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...alleged violations. The House process since then has been aimed at producing an appropriate penalty. The verdict of reprimand, rather than a more severe censure, allows Gingrich to continue as Speaker. Committee chair Nancy Johnson characterized the penalty, which she called "tough and unprecedented" but fair, as a signal to all House members that their behavior would be held to the highest standards...
...known as the Microgames. "There were always a couple of mental games as well as performances and regular games," says Bill Sr. as he flips through a scrapbook. These were no ordinary picnics: one digital version of charades, for example, had teams competing to send numerical messages using smoke-signal machines, in which the winners devised their own 4-bit binary code...
Despite the fervor to cut funding for higher education displayed by the 104th Congress, Democrats say the results of the 1996 elections signal a shift in attitudes toward education programs...
...that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee and Detroit -- in retaliation for Time Warner's refusal to carry the Fox news channel in New York. Fox counters in full-page newspaper ads this week that Time Warner is forcing it to stop transmitting because the cable operator...
When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced last week, "it would form a lake 16 ft. deep and four football fields around...