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At 9:33, the tower supervisor at Reagan National Airport picked up a hotline to the Secret Service and told the Service's operations center that "an aircraft [is] coming at you and not talking with us."
A piece says that Ralph Reed picked the right time to ditch the Christian Coalition: An FEC investigation, falling membership, and disillusionment with Reed's pragmatism are undermining its power.
I then clean up the mess invariably left by Vegas on the kitchen floor--one of several evil new tricks she has picked up from the local dogs--and toss her out into the garden.
But in a paper published in April in Physical Review Letters (click here for an abstract) and immediately picked up by the New York Times , two American physicists reported that polarized light moves through space according to a predictable but previously undetected corkscrew pattern.
This dynamic explains why Will picked James Watson and Francis Crick (who discovered DNA in 1953) as his men of the century, why Kristol picked Abraham Lincoln as his man of the millennium, and why end-of-year movies score well in the Academy Awards.