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...protect fishing boats on North Carolina. It was a stunning intrusion on congressional turf, and a laudable one; the jetties would have ravaged the Outer Banks at a cost of more than $500,000 per boat. In fact, Bush's Office of Management and Budget has consistently proposed zero funding for the agency's most environmentally disastrous and economically ludicrous pork - the Yazoo pump, a $300 million irrigation project for a few Arkansas rice farmers, a $300 million deepening of the Delaware River that was exposed as a boondoggle by the Government Accountability Office, an unnecessary $750 million navigation just...
...American history that I'd never really heard about," co-executive producer Alex Kronemer explained, saying the story diffuses widely held stereotypes. "West African societies were well-developed and literate, but people think of them as primitive and vulnerable. But now we know African history doesn't start at zero...
...prostrate on the floor and nearly hysterical in the final seconds of the Pats’ dramatic 27-24 win over the Baltimore Ravens in early December. Once I recovered from hyperventilating, I realized for the first time that an undefeated season was far from inevitable. The zero on the right side of New England’s record had flickered and might do so again. Sure enough, a few weeks later, the Patriots faced a fourth-quarter deficit to the very same Giants team they’ll see again on Sunday. While the record is perfect, the play...
...Texas was good, but worldwide the battle against AIDS has many fronts, with no sign that the pandemic will be defeated soon. "I don't think drugs can give 100% protection," Dr. Bowers says. "Using HIV drugs may reduce the rate but they are not going to make that zero...
...think nationwide there's an appetite. Whenever you have a third-party candidate the proportion of people voting goes up dramatically. The mistake people make is thinking of it as a zero-sum game. 'Who would a third-party or independent candidate help?' It's not a zero-sum game. More voters come into the process...