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...lower middle class, ordinary travelers take sightseeing tours of the moons of Jupiter and starships sail majestically through the soundless void. But in this U.S. election season, science has been completely bypassed. Tanjim Hossain Orlando, Florida, U.S. The ability to vote freely is under attack. Registration forms have been torn up and discarded, minorities and college students have been intimidated, and registrations have been disallowed for the slightest imperfection. Am I alone in feeling outraged, appalled, terrified? The right to vote is the very core of democracy. We cannot allow public apathy and political manipulation to undermine it. Ken Keaton...
Democrats cried foul in Nevada when a former employee of Sproul & Associates, hired by the Republican Party to gather voter-registration forms, claimed that those filled out by Democrats were being torn up. In Pennsylvania Democrats are so deeply suspicious of Republican tactics that they have kept secret the location of the Election Day staging grounds for a 527 organization called America Coming Together, supposedly because they fear that Republicans would slash their tires if they knew where it was. In Jefferson County, Colo., someone has been calling voters and warning them that it's too late to fill...
...Bush argue that a rapid turnover of combat duties to Iraqis would provide relief to U.S. troops, but that objective may take years to achieve. Though Kerry hopes to pull U.S. forces out by the end of his first term, the danger that Iraq could descend into terrorism-torn anarchy and sectarian strife means that the U.S. will maintain its current presence of 138,000 troops for the foreseeable future...
Sean Tracy, whose knee injury last Saturday was at first feared to be a torn meniscus, suffered a sprain of the capsule housing the cartilage, but not the cartilage itself, Murphy said. He will be held out of tomorrow’s game as a precaution, but should return next week against Columbia. Mike Finch will start in his absence...Clifton Dawson leads the nation in total points with 90 and points per game with 15. The next closest average scorer, James Johnson of Ark.-Pine Bluff, comes in at 12...Matt Thomas and Doug Hewlett were named Ivy League...
...often domestic interiors or landscapes, is surprisingly highly resolved, showing a very sophisticated use of shading and an inexplicably accurate grasp of perspective. He thus achieves an uncannily convincing suggestion of deep space that contrasts sharply with the roughness and irregularity of the paper he worked on. Here the torn edge of an envelope, there a line of writing peeking through a light gray ground, serve to continually interrupt the depicted illusion and assert a stubborn physicality. The result is a fundamental tension whereby the drawing/object seems to continually fluctuate between material and representation, object and form, refusing to take...