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...home. "The mail and our employees have become the target of terrorists," Postmaster General John Potter said. Representatives of the postal workers' union are considering various protective measures, including special gloves and masks, for those who handle mail. Potter insisted Wednesday that any danger to the general public was "slim," and argued against a temporary suspension of postal service, saying, "How would we get it started again? There's never any guarantee that there isn't anthrax anywhere...
...would use our newfound solidarity to mobilize the country when we turn back to domestic issues unrelated to the attacks in a few months. However, the likelihood that our government will take any action to halt the decay of our infrastructure and provide for future economic potential is slim. When growth begins again in this country, sometime in the next few years, we’ll see how well our aging infrastructure handles it. Eventually, resources that need to be rebuilt or expanded will be, but if we don’t do anything now, we will have lost...
...after two years of not logging any playing time, Staph was not invited back to practice with the team at the next camp. As a junior, Staph realized that his chances of ever playing for the varsity team were slim at best...
...loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than 63 lbs. each, their chances were slim...
...movie star efforts is the one most distanced from real life. From the Beatles to David Bowie to the Sex Pistols to Eminem, pop has long been as much about theater as music. Pop stars assume fictional personalities (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Ziggy Stardust, Johnny Rotten, Slim Shady) and audiences laugh or boo or scream at both the character and the real performer. When the multitudes lend their ears and eyes to Russell Crowe as Maximus the Gladiator, the same fusion of real star and imaginary hero takes place; its both Crowe and Maximus they've come...