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...elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy Regulatory Authority, reminded everyone that in 2001 his organization had raised the prospect of a blackout just before the August Olympic Games. "Sadly, that has been confirmed," he said in a local radio interview...
...miss Clinton's intelligent,thoughtful and truly compassionate leadership. He has the kind of genuine concern that pays more than lip service to the needs of the common citizen. I was struck by the fluidity of his responses and his understanding of complex geopolitical issues he faced as President. I am so used to the current Administration's terse, repetitive and convoluted statements-which don't respond to anything-that I had forgotten what real leadership sounds like. Lynn Capehart San Diego...
...There isn't a son in the world who hasn't had an issue with his father," John says. Barbiero observes, "John's dad was someone he was always trying to prove himself to." While John's mother struck Barbiero as a "terrific, warm person," he is blunt about Richard Kerry. "I didn't like his father," Barbiero says. "He was dismissive of John. We'd go out to dinner, and John would be saying something, and his father would cut him off. I didn't feel he gave John much respect." Richard Kerry was suave but not warm, articulate...
...come of it," says Juan Avilés, director of the University Institute for the Investigation of Internal Security. "I'm afraid the main question will be a political squabble about who was wrong." Still, neither major party wants to let the blame game get out of hand. They struck a deal to keep both Aznar and Zapatero off the witness docket, which upsets the smaller parties. "It's important for Aznar to appear before us," says the CiU's Jané. "He was the Prime Minister ultimately responsible for all decisions. It's not good that the parties...
...mother was healthy and the pregnancy normal. But as soon as her baby was born, doctors were struck by the infant's extraordinary muscularity. By 7 months, he had a bodybuilder's pumped-up proportions. Researchers determined that the baby had a double dose of a mutation that inactivates a protein that restrains muscle development (a mutation also seen in mice and cattle). While scientists hope that pinpointing the mutation will help them learn how to reverse muscle wasting from disease, they also know that someday somebody will try to parlay it into a performance-enhancing drug. --By David Bjerklie