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...instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name of the American people, will this madness...
...telling of Cobain’s desire for complete control was his approach to making music. As a child, Cobain insisted on taking guitar lessons and practiced diligently despite his later rehearsed claims to journalists that he disliked practicing and authority. Upon Cobain’s insistence, Nirvana went thorough a bevy of drummers before accepting the talented Dave Grohl as a permanent member, but was talking of firing Grohl towards the end of the band’s existence as the drummer tried to incorporate songs he had written into Nirvana’s sets. And despite the apathetic...
...Bush's is "sound science"--one he uses to justify his stance on issues from global warming to phonics. But to skeptics, the evidence on which he made the stem-cell decision is beginning to look more like the haul from a political scavenger hunt. "It's not very thorough work, lacking in the depth that this issue required and that they were ballyhooing the President had put into it," says Democratic Senator John Kerry...
...superior at detecting colon cancer than less expensive methods. Researchers found that fecal tests combined with a partial examination of the colon--a procedure called sigmoidoscopy that costs only a few hundred dollars--missed 24% of cancers. Reluctant insurers may now be pressured to cover the more thorough method...
Jaeger said that he believed HUCTW membership would see a significant jump from the reclassification. He said that the union had previously informally expressed some concern to the University about the improper classification of employees. He said he was glad to see such a thorough effort to make sure employees were classified correctly...