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Nothing could prepare a traveler for this sight. Imagine the Grand Canyon filled with water. Lake Powell's channels wind through amazing formations of brilliantly colored rocks, undulating canyons and soaring buttes. Along the shoreline are hundreds of hidden beaches that slope gently into the depths. All this is set against the backdrop of more than 1 million acres of pristine desert, much of it belonging to the Navajo Indian Reservation. Those who have experienced the vistas and serene waters of Lake Powell call it the crown jewel of the Southwest...
What Bush didn't realize was that he'd just started sliding down the slippery slope. The next morning's Dallas Morning News headline--BUSH DENIES USING DRUGS IN PAST 7 YEARS--sent the press into a frenzy at a time when Karen Hughes, Bush's longtime spokeswoman, had dropped off the road. (This left McKinnon in charge. "It was like jumping out of a plane without a parachute," he later recalled. Hughes would rarely leave Bush's side again for the rest of the campaign.) It would take 48 hours of revisions before Bush and his team would give...
...Look at the chart - this has been on the horizon for a while. From the March peak of 5132 to Friday's close of 3029, the general direction of the NASDAQ graph - what's called the trend line - is a consistent downward slope. It's tested its low of 3026 several times, in May, in October, and last week, and, as technical analysts like to say, "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom." When the trend line hits the floor, the floor gives way. Then the floor turns into the ceiling...
...issue for as long as possible - if I were Bush, I'd be terrified to face Gore as well. Bush does not do well when he's pushed off-script, and Gore's people are obviously going to focus their attentions on leading their opponent down the slippery slope of malapropism...
...illuminated an increasingly polarized public debate. At issue is the question of what genetically engineered crops represent. Are they, as their proponents argue, a technological leap forward that will bestow incalculable benefits on the world and its people? Or do they represent a perilous step down a slippery slope that will lead to ecological and agricultural ruin? Is genetic engineering just a more efficient way to do the business of conventional crossbreeding? Or does the ability to mix the genes of any species--even plants and animals--give man more power than he should have...