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...RACO DEL TURIA The traditionalist's choice, Raco del Turia, tel: (34-96) 395 1525, serves paella and other time-honored Valencian dishes without a whit of concession to modern mores or methods. A cozy and intimate setting...
...been an awfully long time since NASA's manned space program had a truly good idea. The shuttle has done some wondrous work, but has cost too much and achieved too little. The space station continues to hemmorhage money and return not a whit of good science. So space watchers had good reason to be dubious yesterday when NASA at last pulled back the curtain on its plans for the next generation of spacecraft intended to return human beings back to the moon. As it turned out, the plan is an awfully good one-sort...
...ban’s bizarre and ineffective classification of assault weapons led Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center, a leading gun control advocacy group, to tell NPR this March: “If the existing assault weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t pass...
...He’s lying,” Porter said Tuesday morning. “I have never changed my account of this one whit...
...reminds the reporter how crucial a photo of the island is: "If you can't get a boat there you'll have to swim." The newsdesk gets the photo, and the copy, filed painstakingly by payphone, on time. It's one puzzle piece in a day dictated by deadlines. Whit-taker's soon hurrying to meet the first of the day: 11 a.m. news conference. The media likes pointing the spotlight but doesn't court the same attention, and few see inside the conferences that hatch each day's game plan. There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz...