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Slipstick and Libby
The story concerns Andrew Jackson Libby ( here nicknamed Pinky, for his red hair, but later nicknamed Slipstick ), a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability but meager education.
While the New Frontiers was designed to sustain a colony in travel at speeds significantly below the speed of light, a Howard named Andrew Jackson " Slipstick " Libby raises the ship to speeds approaching lightspeed.
Andrew Jackson " Slipstick " Libby is a calculating prodigy in Robert A. Heinlein's story Methuselah's Children.

Libby and became
The DA sought charges of murder against a doctor, which approved use of restraints and narcotics when Libby became increasingly agitated.
The Iditarod received more attention outside of the state after the 1985 victory of Libby Riddles, a long shot who became the first woman to win the race.
Fleischer became an important figure in the CIA leak case ; he testified that Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, told him that Valerie Plame was a covert agent weeks before Libby had claimed to have been informed of Plame's status by a reporter.
" He became the fourth sitting Member of Parliament to do so after Svend Robinson, Réal Ménard and Libby Davies.
Libby Riddles, a relative newcomer, braved a blizzard and became the first woman to win the Iditarod that year.
She also had to deal with the snobby and headstrong cheerleader, Libby Chessler, who became Sabrina's rival for school activities as well as Harvey's affections.
On July 16, 2007, Libby Sauter became the first woman to successfully cross, with Jenna McLennan walking it shortly after.
Despite the fact the song was banned from radio airplay, or perhaps because of it, it became a hit, with Libby Holman's version going to # 5 and the " Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians " version going to # 14, both in 1931.
Libby Lenton became the first woman to beat the 53 second mark in the 100 metre freestyle, beating the previous world record by 0. 31 seconds with a time of 52. 99.
* Scooter Libby became Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States.

Libby and one
From 1970 to 1972, Wolfowitz taught in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where one of his students was I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby.
It is a felony to reveal the identity of a CIA agent, yet no one has been convicted as a result of Novak ’ s column, though I. Lewis ' Scooter ' Libby, Dick Cheney ’ s Chief of Staff, was convicted of perjury in the Plame leak investigation.
In the testimonial, Libby and Jael explain that they hope and pray that no one outside of Westboro becomes " elect ", because they want everyone else in the world to die horribly and burn in Hell, and that even if they did not believe their actions were dictated by God, they would still do and enjoy them anyway.
* Philly Artblog — Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, publishers and editors of one of America's top art blogs, visited the Eastern State Penitentiary's art exhibits and documented them on video.
" In a posthumous commentary, the L. A. Times wrote that, " Like former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Russert was one of the high-level Washington journalists who came out of the Libby trial looking worse than shabby.
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified, for example, that he was told Plame's name and CIA identity by Libby at lunch on July 7, 2003, one day before Libby's breakfast meeting with Miller.
After seemingly capturing Libby later in the city, the two actually team up, since Travis suspected there might be more than one person with that name in the DMV records, and confirmed it with the picture from the third applicant.
It was designed by Mike Doud and depicted Kate Murtagh, dressed as a waitress named " Libby " from a diner, as a Statue of Liberty figure holding up a glass of orange juice on a small plate in one hand ( in place of the torch on the Statue ), and a foldable restaurant menu in the other hand, on which " Breakfast In America " is written.
She dreams of one day meeting the father she ’ s never known, the man Libby loved deeply seventeen years ago, but ultimately left behind because his aristocratic family supposedly found her unsuitable.
Metcalf and his ex-wife, Libby, have one child, Julius.
* Libby Beer: Another one of the Undying and the wife of Poor Old Ammet.
Sierra Vista Municipal / Libby Army Airfield has three runways and one helipad:
As a result of the investigation, former Vice Presidential Chief-of-Staff " Scooter " Libby was convicted on two counts of perjury, one count of obstruction of justice and one count of making false statements to federal investigators and sentenced to thirty months in jail.
Libby then tells Hurley that when she first saw him on one of his Mr. Cluck's Commercials, she had a vision of the Island, with him being in it, and both of them being in Santa Rosa together.
However, Libby was indicted on one count of obstruction of justice, one count of perjury, and three counts making false statements to the grand jury and federal investigators on October 28, 2005.
On March 6, 2007, Libby was convicted on four counts, and was acquitted of one count of making false statements.
" Neil A. Lewis reported in The New York Times on February 9, 2007, that " The Libby defense won a victory of sorts when Judge Reggie B. Walton agreed to exclude part of one of the five felony counts against Mr. Libby.
Libby was acquitted on one count involving Cooper.
This company was identified as one of the Canadian distributors of zonolite products contaminated with asbestos which originated from Libby, Montana.

Libby and characters
* Chelsea Fox, Denise Fox and Libby Fox, characters in the UK soap opera EastEnders
# REDIRECT List of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch characters # Libby Chessler

Libby and would
Libby estimated that the radioactivity of exchangeable carbon-14 would be about 14 disintegrations per minute ( dpm ) per gram of pure carbon, and this is still used as the activity of the modern radiocarbon standard .< ref > In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work.
On October 25, 1991, Becker attended a concert of the New York Rock and Soul Revue, co-founded by Fagen and producer / singer Libby Titus ( who was for many years the partner of Levon Helm of The Band and would later become Fagen's wife ), and performed spontaneously with the group.
He started at a country music restaurant called " Live At Libby's " where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music.
Russert testified previously, and again in United States v. I. Lewis Libby, that he would neither testify whether he spoke with Libby nor would he describe the conversation.
The committee would ultimately recommend that Paul V. Kelly, a founding partner of Kelly, Libby and Hoopes law firm in Boston, become the fourth Executive Director since the NHLPA ’ s inception in 1967.
Pierrepont believed that electing Greeley would turn over the state governments to a rebellious people and reminded his audience of Union prisoner deaths that had taken place at Andersonville and harsh conditions at Libby Prison.
In former times, the Kootenay would rise each spring and early summers with " enormous freshets that every summer flood the Kootenay River valley ", but because of water regulation nowadays, such extreme variation in flow are no longer common on the lower river below Libby Dam.
At the opposite end of the scale, it would dry the bed of the Kootenay River downstream of Canal Flats, cutting off water supply to residents of the upper Kootenay Valley and invalidating the effectiveness of Libby Dam, whose construction was to begin in a few years.
However because Libby shot Nick when she was in danger of life and limb, killing Nick would be justifiable homicide.
In his testimony to the grand jury, Libby testified that both he and Vice President Cheney believed that Joseph Wilson was qualified for the mission, though wondered if he would have been selected had his wife not worked at the CIA.
" Collins described how after 10 days of deliberations, " What we came up with from that was that Libby was told about Mrs. Wilson nine times ... We believed he did have a bad memory, but it seemed very unlikely he would not remember about being told about Mrs. Wilson so many times .... Hard to believe he would remember on Tuesday and forget on Thursday.
And if Mr. Libby is pardoned, I would have no problem with that.
Another member of the jury, Ann Redington, who broke down and cried as the verdict was being read, also told Chris Matthews, in a March 7, 2007, appearance on Hardball, that she hoped Libby would eventually be pardoned by President Bush ; she told Matthews that she believed Libby " got caught in a difficult situation where he got caught in the initial lie, and it just snowballed " and added: " It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.
According to court documents, the Probation Office states its opinion that the more serious sentencing standards should not apply to Libby since " the criminal offense would have to be established by a preponderance of the evidence ,... the defendant was neither charged nor convicted of any crime involving the leaking of Ms. Plame ’ s ‘ covert ’ status.
According to Denver criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt, a press-accredited blogger who attended the trial, " After Judith Miller's testimony, Libby lawyer Ted Wells told the judge he would be moving for a judgment of acquittal on a count pertaining to her.
On March 8, 2007, two days after the verdict in the Libby trial, Congressman Henry Waxman, chair of the U. S. House Committee on Government Reform, announced that his committee would ask Plame to testify on March 16, in an effort by his committee to look into " whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding Plame's identity.
" He continues: " In any event, we would not view an assessment of the damage caused by the disclosure as relevant to the issue of whether or not Mr. Libby intentionally lied when he made the statements and gave the grand jury testimony which the grand jury alleged was false.

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