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Though the event was originally geared towards university and high school women, grade-school girls ultimately outnumbered the adults and were vocal in discussions expressing their aspirations in the realm of science...
...VOCAL OPPOSITION Two groups will have prime real estate on the parade route. One, antiwar A.N.S.W.E.R., has a permit for bleachers on Pennsylvania Avenue. Turn Your Back on Bush will scatter throughout the crowd and face away from the motorcade in unison, but their picket signs have to stay at home: poles and puppets are banned...
...first Bush term." Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Senator and former Secretary of Education, said Congress first has to be sure No Child Left Behind is working in Grades 3 through 8 before he will back the new plan. Even Ohio Representative John Boehner, who has been the most vocal Republican supporter of the act, has refused to endorse Bush's proposal. Said a senior House Republican aide: "I think the White House is aware it has some selling to do." --By Perry Bacon...
...hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry--who are mute in America--will stay vocal. Banned from broadcast, they're available on DVD. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing
...static with the whole/ We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul." These are smart lines, however grim, and with Jesse Harris (Norah Jones' songwriting shoulder) adding wonderfully warm guitar, the song is even hummable. On other tracks, Oberst imports pedal steel and Emmylou Harris (the vocal equivalent of pedal steel) to add a harmonic steadiness that keeps you from wanting to jump off a bridge...