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...family also went to the same church as the Rogers family, and when we were little, Peter and I would go upstairs during services to the playroom where every few weeks we restless children were joined by Mister Rogers. He would appear in the doorway without fanfare, slip into the room and start reading a book aloud, or talking earnestly with a five-year-old about a new puppy or little brother, or just sit at one of the miniature tables, his long legs tucked up toward his chest, smiling down at us as we played...
...squad could not maintain its initial burst of energy and let its lead slip away...
...gold. Venture capitalist G. Steven Burrill estimated that investors had poured some $220 billion in biotechnology startups in the past two decades and still haven?t made any money. But some of the speakers felt that could soon change?and urged the U.S. not to let this opportunity slip by such shortsighted policies as curbing stem-cell research, a decision that has led at least one prominent scientist to move his lab out of the country. ?When you see whole groups of scientists move to take advantage of new opportunities,? said Juan Enriquez, director of the Harvard Business School...
Things went somewhat differently against Cornell. At the first intermission, Grumet-Morris had faced 12 shots, allowing three to slip past...
Democrats, in a typically garish display of ineptitude, allowed the issue to slip away in 2002. They blocked the Department of Homeland Security--which they had proposed in the first place--because the Republicans wanted to loosen union rules governing hiring and firing. Biden believes this stubbornness cut into his party's usual advantage with women and cost it the election. The Democrats, of course, succumbed immediately thereafter: the Department of Homeland Security was established. But not very much security has come of it. Indeed, Budget Director Mitchell Daniels blurted the real Bush strategy last week: "There is not enough...