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...with the White House pushing quickly on its campaign agenda, the first months of the administration have not all been smooth sailing...
...this smooth Bush operation lose Jeffords? First, by its simple failure to recognize that Bush needed him more than he needed Bush. Grownups know that little things matter (Newt Gingrich shut down the government when he didn't like his seat on Air Force One) and that relationships are based on respect and reciprocity. Enamored of the corporate model, the Bushies treated Jeffords like some fungible account executive who could be replaced at will instead of recognizing that in a fifty-fifty Senate, every Senator is king. White House staff rarely saved Jeffords a seat at the table, and even...
...imagine. Ananova, a British newscaster who reads the headlines from the website ananova.com, looks at users with emerald eyes from under short-cropped green hair. Unlike LiLi, Ananova is fully automated - there is no girl behind the scenes talking and moving for her - and she reads copy in smooth, sexy, synthesized speech. (The software determines her inflections from nothing more than a typed story.) "She's ready for television," says Mike Hembly, CEO of Digital Animations, the company that created Ananova. (Even avatars can have ambition.) And she has had a sense of irony from birth. Her first words...
...this smooth Bush operation lose Jeffords? First, by its simple failure to recognize that Bush needed him more than he needed Bush. Grownups know that little things matter (Newt Gingrich shut down the government when he didn't like his seat on Air Force One) and that relationships are based on respect and reciprocity. Enamored of the corporate model, the Bushies treated Jeffords like some fungible account executive who could be replaced at will instead of recognizing that in a fifty-fifty Senate, every Senator is king. White House staff rarely saved Jeffords a seat at the table, and even...
...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...