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...opponents also conveniently ignore the ratification process, which would block radical change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness of the old Articles. Today there is no widespread sentiment for drastic constitutional revision, and any attempt to try it would be laughed out of the state legislatures...
...every convention goes far afield. Only 9% of state associations ever meet outside their home state, according to the trade monthly Successful Meetings, though cheaper airfares are beginning to encourage more adventuresomeness. In the decade before 1977, 12% of national organizations met or scheduled future meetings outside the U.S. That percentage has slipped slightly because of section 602 of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Americans can now deduct expenses for only two foreign meetings a year, and then only if they can prove that they spent at least six hours a day in working sessions. The American Psychiatric Association...
...photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter's upper atmosphere, Voyager 1 will be catapulted by the powerful Jovian gravity toward Saturn, which it will not reach until 1981. Following closely behind, Voyager 2 may be sent even farther afield, to fly by Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
...elegantly tailored tunic, Hua, 57, obviously enjoyed every minute of the affair. As well he might. Aside from a brief visit to North Korea last spring, this was his first trip to a foreign country and -for a Chinese party chairman-the first-ever foreign journey farther afield than Moscow; Mao Tse-tung last visited the Kremlin in 1957 when relations with the Soviets were still civil...
Stirred by dramatic TV shots of derring-do afield, badgered by friends, family and physicians to stop smoking and start shaping up, armchair athletes all over America in far greater numbers than before are becoming the weekend warriors of sport. But the years, and the gin and the weed and the encroaching flab, have taken their toll. The net result can be painful, and sometimes lethal...