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An interesting detail: The WP notes that the signing concluded just 16 minutes before the Sabbath (Washington time)-which sparked some controversy in Israel, where the Sabbath was already well underway.
But it sparked back into life in 1997, when two ecologists—James Brown of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and his graduate student Brian Enquist, now at the University of Arizona, Tucson—and a physicist, Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute, developed a new explanation of why metabolic rate should equal the three-quarter power of body mass.
Buchanan, who sparked controversy with a new book questioning the need for U.S. intervention in World War II, has been increasingly vocal about his frustration with GOP moderates.
W.'s growing-up experiences sparked a born-again Christianity that has led him to believe all Jews are bound for hell.
The announcement sparked a storm of controversy over his reputed bigotry, however, and scores of the bank's customers, including charities and trade unions, threatened to take their business elsewhere.