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...that burns more efficiently or offers any other benefit. By IRS ruling, they need only modify the chemical composition of coal. As a result, dozens of plants have sprung up across America to carry out a process that in many cases is so slight that critics call it spray and pray, a reference to their hopes that no one will peek too closely. "You can't believe what goes on," a government official long involved with the coal industry told TIME, blaming Congress for its role in perpetuating the handout. "The people who spend the tax money don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Energy Scam | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Snoring is a drag, especially for anyone within earshot. But what can you do? To find out, researchers at Wilford Hall U.S.A.F. Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, recruited 40 volunteers and tested three over-the-counter remedies: Snorenz (a lubricating spray), Breathe Right Strips (to enlarge nostrils) and the Snore-No-More (an ergonomic pillow). None of them worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Stop That Snoring! | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...notice. Remember? Just days before the October vote in Congress on Iraq (and just as the Air Force was preparing an internal report to the contrary), President Bush announced the existence of Iraq’s “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” intended to spray chemical death on American cities. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles! And so, in fear, we went to war against this threat, only to find terrified and angry Iraqis with a decidedly conventional arsenal. (The harmless drones we found seem to have been for reconnaissance, as the Air Force believed all along.) The enabling power...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Frightened—and Fighting Fear | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

When Cicero refused to drop the club and the meat cleaver, an officer showered him twice with pepper spray, police said...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts and Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Man Arrested for Attack with Meat Cleaver | 9/19/2003 | See Source »

Cambridge and Harvard police officers struck the suspect, William Cicero, with a baton and doused him with pepper spray after he refused to drop his weapons, said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts and Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Man Arrested for Attack with Meat Cleaver | 9/19/2003 | See Source »

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