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To: TigerPaw who wrote (132481)	3/20/2001 1:09:10 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You point out very well the dangers of teaching kids how to be very big fing dumb asses. Case in point. Evolution would mean more resistance. Not less. But yes, your point has merit. Jews have coexisted with alcohol much longer than Native Americans, thus the lower level of alcoholics, and the point ceded on coexistence. However, the only logical deduction from your simian post is that SIV doesn't cause AIDS, but it does cause the weaker specimens of a species to suffer a case of premature bodily apoptosis. But, that a natural resistance to AIDS is readily at hand, and science need do nothing but reassure the poulation that the body will respond in a short fashion. Well, I will let that deduction be reasoned out by masters of simian logic. While I hesitate to presume that I am responding to a post made by your doppleganger while you are occupying a state of alcohol palimpsest simply due to the fact that your post seeks to set a scientific standard of explaining everything via evolution, I can not help but deny my hesitation, by putting words in your mouth that go like this: "Humans who get AIDS from HIV will die out in a short time, and then... WHAT???

To: TigerPaw who wrote (132481)	3/20/2001 1:37:44 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Queen of Caligula Hillary Clinton has the highest rented office space in the senate. I'm sure she is very concerned about our national debt. newsday.com NEW YORK (AP) -- About the same time her husband was giving up a penthouse suite in favor of less fancy accommodations in Harlem, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was signing a $514,148-a-year lease on the most expensive hometown office of any U.S. senator. The space is on the 26th floor of an East Side skyscraper. Jim Kennedy, the spokesman for New York's newly elected senator, said Monday that much of the Clinton office space is taken up by a group of about 60 volunteers working on various constituent-related issues. ''This is labor-intensive, and that's about five times as many volunteers as the average Senate office has working on constituent case work,'' he said. It will be the most expensive hometown office of any senator, according to the General Services Administration. The rent is $90,000 a year more than that paid by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and more than double the $209,532 paid by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., for offices one block away. Kennedy said there is nothing unusual about Clinton's choice of space in the 50-story building. ''Every year, somebody in the Senate has to have the most expensive offices and, probably through history, given the price of real estate, it is somebody from New York,'' he said. Controvery erupted last month over former President Clinton's plan to lease a penthouse suite for $800,000 a year, at taxpayer expense, in the posh Carnegie Towers on West 57th Street. Under attack from Congress and other critics for planning to spend more for office space than the other four living ex-presidents combined, Clinton opted instead for more modest space in a new Harlem office building. Kennedy said Sen. Hillary Clinton had not followed suit ''because we believe that as a senator, her offices should be centrally located.'' Kennedy said Clinton actually is saving taxpayers a lot of money by moving into 780 Third Ave. rather than taking over the more glamorous Chrysler Building offices of her predecessor, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan was paying $280,000 a year, but that would have jumped to $627,000 under a new lease, he said. He said the Clinton office suite is listed at 7,909 square feet, but part of that is taken up by elevator shafts and building mechanical equipment, reducing the actual usable space to 5,650 square feet. Clinton is paying $91 a square foot for the usable space, Kennedy said, just under the limit of $91.14 per square foot set by the GSA. The building, completed in 1984, is owned by the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America. The suite has two conference rooms, various offices and cubicles and a kitchen. Clinton also has free access to business conference facilities in the building and a 150-set auditorium in the basement.