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WASHING WATER INVENTOR: SURBEC-ART ENVIRONMENTAL Surfactant Enhanced Subsurface Remediation sounds a tad complicated. It's basically just cleaning dirty water. SESR is a process that begins when surfactants, nontoxic elements used in soap, are pumped into a groundwater supply contaminated with oil. They effectively wash the aquifer clean and are then recovered and reused...
Except he didn't go. The man from Carthage remained in Washington. So, for the most part, did his inner circle: Bob Shrum, Carter Eskew and Tad Devine. Coelho went down; so did Donna Brazile, his fiery field marshal. It was an open secret in the capital: if you wanted to find top Gore campaign aides, you could try them on their 615-area-code cell phones--even though they might be working in offices right down the block...
Donald regales tales of Lincoln's home life Professor William Gienapp never quite gets to in his behemoth Civil War Core. Some jewels the book includes are tales of Lincoln's young children, Willie and Tad, and their goats, Nanko and Nonnie, who all apparently spent a bit too much time in the East room...
Imelda Marcos also returns in Donald's short history. This time, her name is Mary Todd Lincoln, and her obsession with shopping can be directly linked to the death of her son, Tad. Shoes, however, weren't Mary's thing; at one point, she bought 400 pairs of gloves in three months. Donald's history of Mary Lincoln's growing insanity during the White House years is stronger than his history of Lincoln himself, but then again, it's always more fun to read about someone going insane than someone slaving over letters and military decisions...
...consider a recent experiment conducted by school psychologist Ron McGee. According to Fox News, McGee asked a group of fourth graders in Atlanta, Georgia, to vote for their favorite cartoon character with a ballot identical to the one used in Palm Beach. Actually, the ballot McGee used was a tad harder than its Palm Beach analogue. The two columns for best cartoon candidate got squeezed onto one page, not two, and they weren't separated by any sort of neat central punch space. But don't tell that to the dazed and confused in Palm Beach! Out of 74 fourth...