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Considering how often President Bush has declared education reform to be his top priority - he did it again Thursday in a speech before newspaper editors - he doesn't seem to be breaking much of a sweat to save his school plan from the quiet dismemberment it is getting at the hands of Congress. His proposal to give private-school vouchers to children in failing public schools arrived on Capitol Hill pretty much dead, thanks to Democratic opposition. And since then conservative Republicans have stripped the bill of much its attempts to make educators accountable...
...recording industry, perhaps because of the relative effortlessness of digital piracy and near-immunity from the law, feels it deserves special protection. Many pop icons, such as Metallica and Dr. Dre, applaud efforts to preserve record sales as grounded in good principle and in recognition of the blood and sweat of up-and-coming artists. Though we may not be able to articulate opposition to arguments of their tragic monetary loss, many of us just don't buy it. After all, are they really speaking for the struggling artist...
Sitting on the blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days--no, three--without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets from sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in her hut, Jacky is crashing hard, and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates...
...severe that even a figure of speech like "cut it out" could make her faint. Or they may be like "Jean," 38, an executive assistant in New Jersey who is so terrified of balloons that just walking into a birthday party can make her break out in a sweat...
...fitness fanatic even on the road, as these photos taken during the campaign show. While he was Governor, Dubya's favorite place to throw the steel around was the University of Texas gym, overseen by strength and conditioning coach Jeff (Mad Dog) Madden. "He showed up in a full sweat," for a 60-to-90-min. regimen with "a lot of dumbbell work--an athlete's workout," says Mad Dog. And what focus. While a gunman outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was taking potshots at the People's House, Bush soldiered on, "working out in the residence," reported press secretary...