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...From this day forward, I am a free woman, unfettered by the absurd constructs of holiday themes, cringe-inducing prose and those truly loathsome yellow envelopes...
...before a summit. "The old man had been getting signals from people in Europe," the source says, and gave his son "a little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat...
...have just announced a need for an additional $4 billion to repair cracked rails brought to light by a fatal crash last year. Highways are in worse shape than at any time since 1977. One adult in five can't read well enough to find a plumber in the Yellow Pages...
Finally we have learned the word--synesthesia--that describes what our adult daughter has been telling us for years: in her mind she sees numbers and letters of the alphabet in various colors [SCIENCE, May 21]. A is green, B is red, lowercase b is pink, 2 is yellow, 3 is green, 9 is orange and yellow. Months of the year also have their individual colors, which she notes each time she turns over a new calendar page. Your article was interesting and intriguing to me as I saw it--in simple black and white. BEVERLY GROSS Plover...
This morning, truck No. 11 in line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week...