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...Definition of “Xyzlacatosis”: State of being struck by the nonexistence of English dictionary entries beginning with...
...Republican White House, which received the vast majority of the Enron money, struck an unbothered pose, relieved that neither Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill nor Commerce Secretary Don Evans had lifted a finger when Enron came calling for help last fall. Still, the Bush team made one tiny bow to the explosive potential of the Enron scandal, hinting for the first time that it might fork over the details of Vice President Cheney's closed-door meetings with energy-industry officials last spring if a congressional committee requested them. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett predicted that those papers, if released, would...
This was no contemporary war game, however. It was New York City in 1832, when the town was struck by a devastating cholera epidemic. That the city fought back as hard and effectively as it did was a tribute to a health system honed by floods of immigrants and the diseases they carried. New York's response to its great plagues, in fact, became a model for the rest of the country. In the decades to follow, the city's lessons were to be institutionalized in the creation of new federal health agencies, new public hospitals...
...been on target, says Donald Yeomans, a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it would have struck with the explosive force of some 4,000 megatons, enough to obliterate a major metropolitan center and the surrounding countryside. But what troubles most scientists is that the asteroid was detected only two weeks before it flew by. If it had been headed toward impact, those in the target area would have had barely enough time to write their wills. Eleanor Helin, whose Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking group discovered the asteroid, estimates that, on average, one object the size...
...Republican White House, which received the vast majority of the Enron money, struck an unbothered pose, relieved that neither Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill nor Commerce Secretary Don Evans had lifted a finger when Enron came calling for help last fall. Still, the Bush team made one tiny bow to the explosive potential of the Enron scandal, hinting for the first time that it might fork over the details of Vice President Cheney's closed-door meetings with energy-industry officials last spring if a congressional committee requested them. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett predicted that those papers, if released, would...