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...Carmody’s still a memory but Gloger’s back, having transferred back last year. The 6’7 forward leads the team with 17.3 ppg and his presence helped soften the blow of another crushing injury to forward Andre Logan...
...view as an all-out assault on the environment with a series of pronouncements: that snowmobiles could operate in Yellowstone National Park, oil drilling could expand in Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, the National Marine Fisheries Service would ease salmon protections in the Pacific Northwest, and Washington would soften rules on logging and energy conservation. Opponents predict a new wave of even bolder measures in the coming months that could affect water and air quality and renew efforts to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. In response to the critics, White House spokesman Scott...
...President Bush trying to soften legislation meant to protect corporate whistle-blowers? Two Senators responsible for writing such protections into the corporate-accountability act think so. Before passage of that measure in July, people who faced workplace retaliation as a result of speaking out against wrongdoing at their companies were at the mercy of a patchwork of state and federal laws. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was supposed to change all that, say Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. They added a provision shielding people who provide information to any member of the House...
There's a deja vu feel to all this. Is housing headed for the kind of bust that stocks have suffered? The heady growth of recent years is clearly over, and prices may soften over the next few years--both good reasons to take something off the table. But it's a good bet that the rate of household formation (growing) and supply of desirable building lots (shrinking) will underpin the market for years. So if you're not planning to move soon, the home equity you've built should be put to better...
...Democratic fund raiser, "and he is the only one among the potential candidates who has run a full campaign and knows what you have to go through to do it." Gore, who spent the weekend before the election campaigning for unsuccessful Florida gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, seems determined to soften his wooden image. He has taped a Barbara Walters interview to promote his new book on families, Joined at the Heart, and will be host of Saturday Night Live in December. Gore has yet to declare himself a candidate, but few politicians would go through the ritual humiliation...