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Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens grabbed a lot of sympathetic headlines after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of the storm zone. Now he's gone to Capitol Hill to fight for another of man's best friends - the horse. Lassoed by his wife, Madeleine, who owns a stable, Pickens is pressing for passage of a national law banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption in foreign countries. Surprisingly, he has plenty of opposition to the bill - called the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act - including some of his former buddies in the cattle...
...limited time, anyway. Shortly before 11 a.m., another severe storm rumbled through St. Louis, knocking out the electricity for another 200,000; the St. Louis Coffee Oasis was no longer an Internet oasis. Blakely could only laugh as she shut off her laptop. "At least I had the Internet for a few minutes," she mused. "But I still don't know what's going on in the city." Had she been able to log on, Blakely would have learned of water boiling orders, the arrival of the National Guard, forced evacuations, sold-out gas stations, booked hotels and power outages...
...nearby table, three young men also had shut their laptops in disbelief. Like Blakely, they'd also lost the power in the storm. But their 7th?floor apartment proved too hot and they've spent the past 36 hours staying with nearby friends and perusing free wi-fi wherever they could find it. "I like to think we're European backpackers," said Dave Aronberg...
...time the voting would take. Bush's veto, and the expected House failure to override it, will come within days and will soon have been replaced by other issues. "It'll all be over in 72 hours," says one top GOP aide, "It'll be like a summer storm." At least that's the plan...
Most Asian carmakers have taken a humble route to U.S. shores: Toyota's 1968 Corolla carried a modest price tag; South Korea followed in 1986 with the Hyundai Excel. Chinese carmakers Geely and Chery both hope to storm the low end of the U.S. market. But China's Nanjing Automobile Group wants to raise the bar by selling roadsters in the U.S. from 2008 under the famous MG marque. Nanjing, which bought MG Rover last year, hopes to build the $25,000 MG TF coupes in Oklahoma at the first Chinese auto factory on American soil-a long way from...