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This presidential election was akin to an environmental and social IQ test. But the supposedly environmentally minded Greens most certainly did not pass the test, since they took votes away from Al Gore in Florida. Nader has proved himself to be an utterly irresponsible citizen. I will still vote for the Green Party in the future, but I will never again support Nader. LOUK WIJSEN Alameda, Calif...
...Bill Clinton did what no other Democratic President would have done: he signed historic welfare reform into law. It made welfare recipients work to get paid and required that they leave the rolls in five years. For a liberal Democrat to sign such a law was akin to a staunch anticommunist like Nixon going to China or a President from Texas like Johnson signing the 1964 civil rights law. It was a day that changed America...
...post-Stonewall generation, this seems akin to the military 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy," Chauncey said. "But the older generation didn't see it this way. Repression strengthened the bonds, making gays like a secret fraternal order...
...years. But other experts insisted they knew of stars that were at least 14 billion years old--obviously a problem, since stars can't be older than the cosmos. Using the VLT, though, observers have measured minute traces of radioactive uranium and thorium in the oldest stars--a technique akin to radiocarbon dating--and proved that they're more like 12 billion years old (the age of the universe, meanwhile, is now estimated at 14 billion years...
Last night's election was akin to a roller coaster ride. But it was the major television networks that manufactured much of the excitement. Blinded by competitive drive, all the most accessible media outlets incorrectly reported election outcomes throughout the evening. Unreliable exit polling led to a premature calling of Florida for Vice President Al Gore '69 even before polls in the state had closed. Later that evening, again instead of waiting for full election returns, the networks heralded a victory for Texas Gov. George W. Bush--only to retract their report less than an hour later...