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...immigration restrictions to halt the cultural transmogrification of American society. One of the most ^ outspoken advocates for the latter is Daniel Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who favors a moratorium on all immigration, insisting that "nations do not have an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants without irrevocably altering their own character" -- an echo of a view enunciated more than a century...
...rise at an estimated 9 percent per year; that is the single most important figure in the health care debate. The U.S. currently spends $850 billion on health care, more than $3,400 per person. Anyone who understands compound interest can see that our society can't afford to absorb 9 percent annual growth any longer...
...Stager wants to dispose of. Neither of them has examined the holdings soon to fall under his jurisdiction. These institutions and the other likely legatee, the Houghton Library, have full and important agendas of their own. The odds are that the artifacts and records of Semitic peoples will not absorb much of their energies or space. The dispersion of the collections to people and centers not much interested in them dooms them. That this should happen a second time in the history of the Semitic Museum, so soon after it was exhumed from its previous shabby interment, should...
...uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights and a production as epic and energized as Mark Wing-Davy's at New York City's Lincoln Center. Without preaching, without invective, without in any way distorting urban life, The Lights makes one ashamed to dwell in a U.S. city and absorb its brutish selfishness...
...clear; about half of the $1 billion in ore is thought to be recoverable. What the northern Rockies would gain is less certain. Yellowstone Park's fragile buffer forests would suffer more industrial invasion, if not environmental damage. Montana would get a small royalty payment, but Wyoming, which would absorb most of the social impact, would get nothing. There is no large population of unemployed miners in the area, which is getting along fairly well from tourism. Peter Aengst, an activist for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, repeats a familiar complaint: "Crown Butte gets the mine, and Yellowstone gets the shaft...