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Lately, though, Dr. Seuss is getting out more--a lot more. Since Geisel's death at age 87 in 1991, his widow has taken control of an empire long considered a sleeping giant in the licensing realm, shaken it awake and issued strict marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport stars in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch...
...Bush team, looking for a strict reading of a murky set of Florida election statutes - we know they're murky because both sides urged the Justices to read them as a whole before deciding - already has Judge Terry Lewis's reading backing it up. So it fought the case like it's been fighting the p.r. war: by containment, one step at a time...
...hand recounting to continue, perhaps eroding Bush's narrow lead. But in her defense, Harris can say, as she has repeatedly, that she was just enforcing the deadline for reporting votes set out by the Florida legislature. It's not a completely frivolous point: the law can often be strict about deadlines. In 1992 Virginia executed convicted killer Roger Coleman after the Supreme Court held that his lawyers waived his constitutional claims by missing a deadline for filing legal papers...
...Cleveland," even though Cleveland got 90,000 more popular votes. In case anyone has forgotten, it also occurred in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden despite Tilden's slight majority of popular votes. Ultimately, the choice of Hayes as President was made by a committee vote along strict party lines; nevertheless, Hayes' election stands as a second example of the antidemocratic potential of the Electoral College. CROSS G. MOORADIAN Detroit...
EVADING INFLUENZA Other than a quarantine, how can you protect your family when one of your kids comes home with the flu? The answer may lie in Relenza, the first flu drug that's inhaled. Researchers say if a strict protocol is followed, Relenza can reduce the odds that the flu will spread within a family by 79%. Beginning with the first sign of the flu, the sick child must inhale Relenza twice a day for five days. Siblings and parents, meanwhile, should use it once a day for 10 days. Even better: get a flu shot in the first...