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Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state??is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
Al Gore gave up on Ohio in October 2000. Kerry's not walking away. And with the state??economy weak, Bush's approval rating sank to 43% in a recent poll. Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton. Kerry needs a big turnout in Cleveland and Toledo; Bush needs it in the northwestern Farm Belt and the Cincinnati suburbs. Legal fights are already erupting over electionprocedures...
...blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such formaldehyde-linked illnesses as respiratory difficulties, eye and skin irritations, headaches, vomiting and severe irritation to the mucous membranes." Massachusetts estimates that some 7,000 houses in the state???and many more across the country?are insulated with formaldehyde. The cost of removing the stuff, where it can be removed, might run from $14,000 to $20,000 per house. The foam industry has filed suit protesting the ban and the requirement that manufacturers must remove the foam...
...President Ephraim Katzir and Premier Menachem Begin. "Thank you," said Sadat as he shook hands. Answered Begin: "You are welcome. Thank you for coming to visit us." Never before had the Middle East witnessed such a moment?the first visit ever of an Arab leader to the Jewish state???and Israelis could scarcely believe what they were seeing. Egypt has been an implacable enemy in four bitter Arab-Israeli wars that have cost countless thousands of lives and casualties on both sides, yet there was Anwar Sadat standing solemnly at attention as a military band played both the Egyptian national...
Despite this, a new snag soon developed. Most of Saigon's leaders urged that Minh become Premier in full charge of the government, with Huong remaining as nothing more than a symbolic head of state. From the beginning, however, Minh insisted that he be chief of state???with real powers...