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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - With one mighty heave, Tom Brady and Randy Moss took care of the record books. Now it's down to business for the unbeaten New England Patriots: stamping themselves as the greatest team in NFL history. The Patriots completed a perfect if somewhat joyless journey through the regular season Saturday night, finishing with a remarkable 16-0 record following a thrilling 38-35 comeback victory over the New York Giants. New England became the first NFL team since the 1972 Dolphins to win every game on the schedule, and that one was only 14-0. This victory required a...

When it comes to defining greatness, at least in comparing teams from different eras, there are only two absolutes: 1. It can’t be done. 2. Of course it can be done, stupid. Just ask any former player. “Well, you know what I’m going to say,” said Mike Singletary, the former linebacker for the 1985 Chicago Bears. “Of course I’m biased. But I think we would’ve done pretty well against New England.” The Patriots are 15-0. Barring a sudden show of sympathy from Bill Belichick or a career day from Eli Manning, they figure to complete an undefeated regular season today...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Mitt Romney arrives at his campaign headquarters here 10 minutes early, a knife-blade crease in his khakis, winter tan, lots of hair, all of it in place. He skips the coffee and doughnuts in favor of skim milk and the home-baked granola sent along in a zip-lock baggie by his wife. That's Ann, his high school sweetheart -- the mother of his five handsome sons -- with whom he says he has never had a serious argument in 38 years of marriage. By central-casting standards, the former Massachusetts governor is the perfect presidential specimen -- a comforting...

Girly men are perfect partners, say women By Aislinn Simpson Last Updated: 1:56am BST 08/08/2007 Women searching for the perfect partner avoid macho men in favour of feminine-looking types whom they see as more committed and better parents, research has found. Jools Oliver with husband Jamie Men with masculine features, such as a square jaw, larger nose or smaller eyes were perceived to be less faithful, more detached and worse fathers. Those with fuller lips and wide eyes were seen as being more caring, nurturing and less likely to stray. Psychologists from Durham and St Andrews Universities asked more than...

Hi, A couple of friends and I have started a new blog lampooning the "People For A Perfect World" types out there who want to legislate every single facet of our lives, and I'm looking for news articles from around the country and world to highlight. These articles should be about legislators or activists of any stripe who want to create laws for the purpose of creating a "Perfect World" where nothing bad happens and everybody lives in 3-part harmony (to quote an old 3 Dog Night song). So far we've highlighted the various ridiculous ramblings of such as Sally...

SACRAMENTO — Hoping to resurrect an idea voters rejected in last year's special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to offer lawmakers a deal: He'll support an easing of term limits if they'll agree to change the way California draws voting districts. Schwarzenegger said in an interview Thursday he does not believe term limits have improved Sacramento's political culture. Allowing legislators to stay in office longer would be worthwhile, he said, if it induced them to put a proposal on the ballot that would strip them of the power to carve political boundaries. The governor reasons that lawmakers may not want...

I will never forget that night in late May of 1959................................. my mother was a big baseball fan and so were my brother and I. We were all sitting around late that night listening to the Pirate game on the radio in Pittsburgh................. as thunder was heard and lightening seen in the sky in the late innings at old County Stadium in Milwaukee. It was the night of (imo) baseball’s greatest pitching performance --- 12 perfect innings of pitching. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05261959.shtml****Thirty-six consecutive batters were retired by Harvey Haddix before the thirteenth inning — when it all ended on an error, an...

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An AIDS patient writes a letter to the HIV virus, forgiving it for the harm it’s done him and thanking it for inspiring him to live a fuller life. A recovering alcoholic reminds herself to “let go and let God.” Parents pray to see their son as “the perfect child of God” rather than call a doctor to prescribe medication for his earache. A collective of incorporeal beings sends this message to a best-selling author: “There is nothing you cannot be, do, or have.” What do these people have in common? All of them are heirs of the religious philosophy...

When I was a boy, my parents used to enjoy a comedian named Ronnie Graham. One of his jokes was, "The other day a cat came up to me and said, 'How do I get to Carnegie Hall?' and I said 'Practice, man, practice.' This other cat came up to me and said, 'Meow.' He was a real cat." We talk a lot in our movement about spiritual practices. I am a Religious Science Practitioner; the root word of Practitioner is practice. But why do we practice? Ernest Holmes said that a central concept of our movement is "Perfect God,...

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Search Is on for Perfect 2008 Candidate Fri Nov 5, 5:18 PM ET By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer WASHINGTON - Wanted: a former altar boy from the Southwest who speaks Spanish, married into a rich Republican family from Ohio and revolutionized the Internet after working as a volunteer firefighter in Florida. Position: president of the United States. Building a perfect candidate for 2008 is easy with hindsight and exit polls at your disposal. Some three years and 360 days away from the next presidential election, this is what Republicans and Democrats might be looking for: _ A fifth-generation Hispanic-American...

Mr. Perfect for PresidentMichelle Malkin (archive)  September 29, 2004 | Print | Send TV cameras are brutally unforgiving -- especially during high-stakes election debates. They amplified the angst on Richard Nixon's brow, the inexperience in Dan Quayle's eyes, and the vulgarity of Al Gore's visage. How will Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry hold up under the spotlight? What will the cameras reveal? Beneath the Christophe-coifed hair, unnaturally taut skin and artificially enhanced tan, there are some naked attributes Kerry cannot conceal: His spite. His haughtiness. His condescending core. John Kerry detests his opponents. He detests his own staff. He detests anybody and...

'The Perfect Mile' 50 Years Later, Bannister-Landy Race Still Memorable The Perfect Mile May 6, 2004 -- Fifty years ago, Briton Roger Bannister ran the world's first mile under four minutes. Just six weeks later, Australian John Landy broke Bannister's record, setting up a face-off between the world's first two men to achieve that long-elusive goal. NPR's Juan Williams looks back on the Bannister-Landy matchup in an interview with Neal Bascomb, author of The Perfect Mile. In the Aug. 7, 1954, Empire Games race in Vancouver, "you have these two great runners, both of whom had broken four-minute miles, battling...

Nasa returns to Apollo in quest for the perfect craft Robin McKie, science editor Sunday January 11, 2004 The Observer (UK) America is planning to replace its troubled, ageing fleet of space shuttles with a powerful new craft modelled on the Apollo vehicles that took US astronauts to the Moon 30 years ago. The new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will be designed to ferry crew and cargo to and from the International Space Station, take men and women to the Moon, and eventually participate in manned missions to Mars. The detailed plan to develop the spaceship, revealed yesterday, is to...

Excavating the 'perfect ship'Treasures: A robot is enabling archaeologists to explore a wooden wreck, preserved for more than a millennium at the bottom of the Black Sea.By Frank D. Roylance Sun Staff Originally published August 18, 2003 Somewhere off Turkey's Black Sea coast, in a grave a thousand feet beneath the waves, a ghostly mast stands erect in the gloom. Preserved for 1,500 years by the scarcity of oxygen in the Black Sea's depths, the wooden mast provides a tantalizing hint of the historical treasure that archaeologists have now begun to excavate.

<p>As California begins a new fiscal year without a budget -- to the utter surprise of no one -- Democrats and Republicans are exchanging rhetorical fusillades over who is to blame and how the deficit-saturated budget can be fixed.</p> <p>The verbal barrages on the floors of both legislative houses and in the media are strong indications that the stalemate over a budget will continue for weeks, if not months. The various factions -- Democrats seem to be especially fragmented -- are implying that with agreement on a new budget not likely soon, they are concentrating on shifting the political onus to others.</p>

Hubble captures 'perfect storm' in space Astronomers say images of a perfect storm have been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. A storm - a region of turbulent gas and radiation which resembles a raging sea - has been discovered far out in space. The image is being released to commemorate the 13th anniversary of Hubble's launch, and shows a small area within a hotbed of star formation called M17. Also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula, it is located about 5,500 light years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius. Within the nebula, glowing gas is sculpted into furious...

2 Nephi 2 Redemption cometh through the Holy Messiah—Freedom of choice (agency) is essential to existence and progression—Adam fell that men might be—Men are free to choose liberty and eternal life. [Between 588 and 570 B.C.] 1 AND now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my first-born in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness. And behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow, because of the rudeness of thy brethren. 2 Nevertheless, Jacob, my first-born in the wilderness, thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain. 3...