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Sep 13, 2007 at 09:46 AM |
A surprising 28 people in Illinois have been infected with the West Nile Virus this year, 3 dieing.A 69-year-old Cook County woman became ill in late August and died on September 3. Two early deaths from West Nile virus in Illinois this year include a 47-year-old Chicago man who died August 7 and a 77-year-old Ogle County man who died August 8.
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Last Updated ( Sep 13, 2007 at 09:48 AM )
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Sep 12, 2007 at 07:06 PM |
The former Cockney flower-girl turned elegant-English-speaker Eliza Doolittle caught something of our moment in these lyrics from My Fair Lady: "Oh, words, words, words, I'm so sick of words .... Is that all you blighters can do?"
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Of course, all she had to do was be Pygmalion to a self-involved language teacher. We've had to bear with the abbreviating of almost every member of Congress.
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Two endless days of congressional testimony from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, not to speak of the flood of newspaper, radio, and TV stories about all of the above and the bevy of experts who are hustled out to do the horse-race assessments of how the general and ambassador performed, whether they "bought" time for the President, and the like.
And -- count on it -- that's just the beginning. The same cast of characters will be talking, squabbling, spinning, and analyzing stats of every sort for weeks to come -- with a sequel promised next spring.
Everyone knows that's the case, just as everyone has known since mid-summer that we would get to this point and, when we did, that things similar to those said (and written) in the last two days would indeed be said (and written), and that nothing the blighters would say or write would matter a whit...
...or change the course of events, or the tide of history, even though whole forests might be pulped in the process and it would be springtime for hyperbole and breathless overstatement in the world of news.
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Last Updated ( Sep 13, 2007 at 09:53 AM )
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Sep 09, 2007 at 04:05 PM |
UK Motorists who use a hand-held mobile phone or fiddle with a satellite-navigation system while driving could be jailed for up to two years. Prosecutors have said they could be charged with dangerous driving in a dramatically tougher approach to such offences.
Those caught fiddling with an MP3 music player or texting on a mobile at the wheel could also face the charge. Prosecutions will be brought whenever it is judged that using the equipment posed a danger, such as forcing a car to swerve or causing a distracted motorist to jump a red light. Those who kill while using a mobile phone will face 14 years behind bars under the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
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