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...process has made Byrd a god in West Virginia; his mastery of appropriations has funneled billions to the perennially poor state. While Al Gore lost the state in 2000, Byrd won all but seven of its 1,970 precincts. Senators, too, admire his command, seeking him out like a somewhat eccentric sage. When Bill Frist ascended to Byrd's old post as majority leader, the two met for two hours. Hillary Clinton comes by for advice...
...couple of years ago, for example, a San Francisco playwright named Joan Holden had the somewhat unpromising notion of turning Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book about her experiences as a minimum-wage worker, into a stage play. The result is an episodic but incisive series of vignettes about the impossibility of making ends meet while waiting tables in Florida, scrubbing toilets in Maine and stocking discount-store shelves in Minnesota. Nickel & Dimed has its deficiencies as drama, but it's a rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life...
...chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves--a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller--but Rush merges the two successfully and somewhat shockingly, when the doctor who is the target of Ray's surveillance becomes Iris' psychiatrist, neatly short-circuiting Ray's heretofore hermetically separate identities and violently abolishing his sense of certainty in every truth he ever relied...
...leader." Hillary? Tough, determined, thin and lithe, "bags and bags of energy." And what did Band think now of the - to modern ears - hilariously measured tones with which Hunt described the moment of triumph? Oh, said Band, all climbers are stoics. They have to be, for climbing can be "somewhat callous and barbaric. It's a dangerous sport." Besides, he added quietly, "it was a different world...
...blood-pressure reading of 140/90 mm Hg or higher has a greatly increased risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke or developing kidney problems. But the more scientists learn about how hypertension affects various arteries and organs, the more they realize the damage begins long before that somewhat arbitrary cutoff. This growing awareness prompted the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week to revise its blood-pressure guidelines so that 45 million Americans whose blood pressure is between 120/80 and 139/89--a level that was once considered to be on the high side of normal--will...