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John Edwards, the newly-named Democratic vice presidential candidate, suggested that President Bush s administr
stanley cup ation dragged its feet in prosecuting alleged corporate crooks such as former Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay. It took three long years to see Ken Lay handcuffed and indicted for what he did, the North Carolina senator said Saturday in the weekly Democratic radio address. In November, middle-class families will be able to rest assured that John Kerry will look out for their interests, restore corporate responsibility and put our economy back in line with our values. He said Kerry understands that families are struggling to stay afloat. You can t save any
stanley mug money because it takes every dime you make to just to pay your bills. And if something goes wrong, a serious illness, or a layoff, you go right off the cliff, he said. And to make things even worse, millions of Americans have lost their life s savings and pensions because of corporate crooks like Ken Lay. Lay, a big political contributor whose largesse went mostly to
stanley cup Republicans, surrendered to authorities in Houston on Thursday and declared his innocence of charges he fraudulently hid losses and debt problems at Enron. He was indicted Thursday after a 2frac12;-year investigation into the energy giant s collapse. Lay and his wife contributed more than $790,000 to Republicans and slightly more than $86,000 to Democrats from 1989 to 2001, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Lay, Hung U.S.: Al Qaeda Rebuilding In Pakistan
Everyone favorite sparkly Internet meme has a long and strangely scientific history 鈥?naturalists and scholars have been obsessing over unicorns for over 2000 years. What turned
stanley cup a scientific curiosity of the year 398 BCE into a virgin-loving Christian symbol The Early Science of Unicorns In his terrific book A Natural History of Unicorns, University of Nottingham geographer Chris Lavers includes a translation of the first known written descrip
stanley cup tion of a unicorn. It comes from the writings of Ctesius, a Greek physician and historian who wrote a number of scholarly books based on what he gleaned from Persian archives. In roughly 398 BCE, Ctesius writes: There are in India certain wild asses which are as large as horses, and larger. Their bodies are white, their heads dark red, and their eyes dark blue. They have a horn on the forehead which is about a foot and a half in length. The base of this horn, for some two hands ;-breadth above the brow, is pure white; the upper par
stanley fr t is sharp and of a vivid crimson; and the remainder, or middle portion, is black. Those who drink out of these horns, made into drinking vessels, are not subject, they say, to convulsions or to the holy disease [epilepsy]. Indeed, they are immune even to poisons鈥?This is the only way to capture them: when they take their young to pasture, you must surround them with many men and horses. They will not desert their offspring and fights with horns, teeth and heels; and they kill many horses and
