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...Byrd had such strong credentials in the Senate that six years later he beat party celebrity Hubert Humphrey, former vice president under Lyndon Johnson and 1968 Democratic presidential nominee, to become Senate Majority Leader in 1977. Byrd did so after running for President himself the year before, but he ran only in his home state, and acknowledged at the time that he was more interested in leading the Senate than the country. Aside from Byrd, the longest serving senator in office, no other former Democratic candidate in recent history has won a leadership role in the Senate...
...blew the whistle on itself and other aid organizations on Tuesday by publishing findings that a number of aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers engage in sexual abuse of some of the world's most vulnerable children. Hundreds of cases of sexual misconduct with children ranging in age from six to 17 were reported in disaster and war-torn regions around the world. And according to the report, a far greater number of cases go unreported...
...spacecraft now has about three months to study the Martian north pole before -200 F winter temperatures hit the region and threaten to freeze the instruments. But Phoenix is designed with a longer, six-to-eight-month stay in mind, so hopes are high that the probe will not only find frozen water but will also serve as a precursor to later missions seeking evidence of microscopic organic life. Which means that NASA, like Frosty, will probably be back again someday...
...details of this prognosis in excruciating detail. They described ear wax removal, a fungal infection on his toe, and his occasional experience of blood in his urine, which was treated as an enlarged prostate and stones in his bladder. They noted that McCain reports sleeping five to six hours a night, drinks two alcoholic beverages a month, and occasionally experiences vertigo when he stands, a common condition his doctors said did not put him at increased risk for stroke. A doctor's visit in March showed that he weighed 163 pounds, down six pounds from a year earlier, which...
...Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former history department chair Andrew D. Gordon, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins, former earth and planetary science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant—throwing the gender balance from eight women and 10 men to six women...