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...addition to implementing mandatory gun registration, Bradley hopes to use $65 billion to make sure that at least 95 percent of the population has health care, Shannon said...
Increased education and use of family planning have pushed down fertility rates all over the globe. On the negative side, mortality has been driven up by the spread of AIDS, especially in Africa...
...from space tends to get distorted by the planet's atmosphere, causing a star's familiar twinkle. The CFHT, however, is equipped with optical hardware that lets it calibrate itself on the light from a known star--whose degree of atmospheric distortion will generally be predictable--and then use that information to correct the distortion of other, unknown bodies. A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus...
...just sit at a loom and pull the weft through the warp--right? Wrong. It's complex, strenuous and, Navajo weavers say, mystical. "Weaving is your thought," says Pearl Sunrise, who teaches a $355, five-day workshop at the Taos Institute of Arts in New Mexico. "You need to use your motor skills, your psychological being and your spirituality." Emily Hyatt of North Carolina has been weaving all her life and has a business educating schoolchildren about the history of the craft. But in Pearl's class she was a beginner again. Previously, she had looked at weaving from...
Until recently, George W. Bush seemed like a Teflon candidate. Dirt ? such as accusations of youthful cocaine use ? refused to stick to him as he glided through the early stages of the Republican presidential nomination process. He even seemed to have a good shot at winning New York, a Democratic stronghold, and two weeks ago, in a tour of the state's minority neighborhoods, Bush was introduced at speaking engagements by Floyd Flake, a leading black Democrat. Bush also received a big boost earlier this month when New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, two Republicans with...