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...Arrow up] Net surfing might make you smarter. In a new survey, students with online access had up to 97% better "thinking" skills than those without...
...Arrow down] Investigators blame an American Airlines crash in Colombia last year on a pilot's misuse of a cockpit computer meant to simplify navigation...
Political-science professor Houseman focuses on tax breaks for businesses to encourage research and development, a fair foreign-trade policy and providing job-skills training. He supports strong environmental protection, the repeal of the assault-weapons ban and unrestricted access to abortion. A quirky candidate in a straight-arrow part of Indiana, Houseman would be only the third Democrat to represent this district in the past 50 years...
...Speaker in a second Clinton term, Gephardt would have to find common ground with the Democrats in the White House too, and that may be complicated by the Missourian's strained relationship with the President. Gephardt is a straight arrow who looks like he walked out of an episode of Happy Days and is said to disapprove of the President's baby-boomer propensity for self-indulgence. On a political level, Gephardt also resents Clinton for his "triangulation" strategy of distancing himself from congressional Democrats. To this day, Hill Democrats argue that Clinton owes his political resurrection not to adviser...
...network television. As you may already know if you are on the cutting edge of moviegoing, Woo is one of the pre-eminent auteurs of Hong Kong filmmaking, a master of somber, lyrical and unrelentingly bloody action films. He had his first U.S. hit earlier this year with Broken Arrow, and breaks new American ground this month with his first-ever made-for-TV movie, John Woo's Once a Thief (Fox, Sept...