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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deliberately vested the appointment power in the single President, giving the senate the power to advise and consent, i.e. to say no. This was said to combine the benefits of placing responsibility for the choice in one person with a check to “prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment or from a view to popularity” (Federalist...

Author: By Murray Dry, | Title: Federalists on the Estrada Nomination | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...person may rank a 12-minute mile as a moderate-intensity physical activity, matching the absolute intensity scale exactly. The relative and absolute intensity scales diverge, however, for older or unfit people, who will perceive the same physical activity as strong-intensity or even impossible...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Find Good Exercise Is All in the Head | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

Even for those with high risk of contracting the disease, eating peanuts may be a good way to lower risk. The study found that peanuts help decrease the risk of contracting Type II Diabetes in people who are unfit, overweight or smokers, all of which are risk factors for the disease...

Author: By Christina M. Anderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Finds Eating Nuts May Reduce Diabetes Risk | 12/3/2002 | See Source »

...years later, Birdie is engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some years later he marries Birdie’s childhood friend, Avis, even though he doesn’t love...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Southern Ghosts | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...high-concept, highly stylized adrenaline rush of a movie--Diesel stars as Xander Cage, the ripped and tattooed un-James Bond. Like Diesel himself, who admits that when he was a child his "appetite for attention was insatiable," Xander is a self-starting, self-promoting charmer who is presumably unfit for any occupation other than star. Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited by a U.S. security official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Next Action Hero | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

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