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...Arlington, the pallbearers gave Jackie the flag from the coffin, which she embraced as if it were a small child. Then she took a taper and lit the flame at the foot of the grave - an "eternal light." Bobby and Teddy Kennedy touched taper to flame too. Then they turned to go, and the funeral was over...
...assume that as apps get better and better, iPhone-driven Web use on those all-important content sites will taper...
...there to determine whether those benefits would continue growing until the fine-particle pollution got down to zero; one of the cities closest to that, Albuquerque, N.M., still hovers around 5 micrograms per cubic meter. But at this point, it doesn't seem that the benefits taper off. "If it continues to follow what we've observed, it appears that there are health benefits down to very low levels of exposure," says Pope. (See the Year in Health, from...
...student, agreed, saying that he believes that “Obama is going to have to govern from the middle.” “I think a lot of liberals who are a little more left than they are to the center are going to have to taper their expectations,” he said...
...Core committee] has been very lenient in the last couple of years anyway because of the effort that’s been made to ensure that the Core doesn’t kind of taper down to nothing,” Kelly said in a phone interview from Italy, where he now is on leave...