When he finds it, he dives in and revels in it, at one point nearly suffering hypothermia after crawling inside a Grand Canyon cave that is the origin of a freshwater spring.

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Newsweek's poll (which Gore was quoting for months this spring when it was the only one that gave him a chance) now finds the veep ahead 46 percent to 42 percent.

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