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Having supported the president by a slim margin in 2000, New Hampshire, with its four electoral votes, has once again emerged as a contested state in this year’s election, attracting the concerted efforts of both major campaigns...
...lifetime. After all, he says, the scenario he has just presented to a famous director is the story of his own life. Who better to play the leading part? Yes, the main character is a drag queen but, he tells the director, "if I look too manly, I can slim down." Pride mixes with desperation as he adds, "I'm very flexible. I can do anything...
...More than 1,000 copies of the slim volume were distributed at the U.N. General Assembly last week, and another 1.5 million will go to Dutch citizens. In October, the 56 photographs in the book will be blown up and displayed in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington DC, in an exhibition supported by DATA, the anti-poverty group co-founded by Irish singer and activist Bono, of the band U2, who wrote the song whose lyrics supply the book's only words. "If you look at the book, there are only questions," says Veenman. "I don't give...
Though the team kept quiet in the first half, out-shooting the Bears by a slim margin of 4-2, it exploded in the second to the tune of an 18-6 shot differential...
...checkup and were never even asked to unbutton our shirts? Dr. Christine Laine, a Philadelphia internist and senior deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, understands that the odds of discovering a serious problem by listening to a healthy patient's heart and lungs during a checkup are slim, but she listens anyway. Laine says the ritualistic wielding of the stethoscope on bare skin fosters an emotional bond between patients and the person they're relying on for their medical well-being. "And anyway," she says, "it takes less time for me to do it than to convince them...