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...American strategic planners, that is something akin to putting the genie back into the bottle. While the U.S. was first to place several warheads, each aimed at a different target, atop intercontinental missiles, the Soviet Union upped the ante. It built 308 giant SS-18s with 10 warheads each, which provided Moscow with what Washington tensely termed a "first-strike capability," that is, enough power to raise fears of a possible surprise attack...
...finds apathy, ugliness and poverty -- not to mention once pristine waters fouled by industrial and human waste. The nearest thing to the imagined paradise of Hollywood sarong epics is the Big Island of Hawaii, where last July he watched an eclipse of the sun. The experience, Theroux writes, was akin to "the onset of blindness." When the sun returns, he kisses the woman next to him. "Being happy was like being home," he exults, and every reader will know...
...protect heroin users has impeded efforts by health authorities to control the spread of AIDS. Civic leaders have been caught up in moralistic arguments over whether providing clean needles to addicts would only accelerate inner-city drug abuse. In minority communities, opponents insisted that needle handouts were akin to genocide. Meanwhile, AIDS raced through intravenous-drug-using populations. Today one-third of the nation's AIDS cases originate from IV drug use. More specifically, 71% of all females with AIDS are linked directly or indirectly to IV drug use, as are 70% of all pediatric AIDS cases. Still, health experts...
This weekend in Bethlehem, that type of pressure, no mater what Kleinfelder desires, will rise to a peak, akin to say, squatting naked at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean...
...real thrust of Tsongas' program lies in his efforts to shore up America's declining manufacturing base. He calls far more strongly than Clinton for an industrial policy that would pick winners among emerging new industries. To do that, Tsongas would create a federal office somewhat akin to Japan's famed Ministry of International Trade and Industry that would finance and develop new technologies. But the problem, as critics of industrial policy never tire of pointing out, is that no one really knows which promising discoveries today will blossom into thriving industries tomorrow...