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How? For one thing, failing to pay U.N. dues is actually costing the U.S. more money in the long run by jeopardizing efforts to reduce the U.S. share of the U.N. peacekeeping tab from 30% to 25%. (The U.S. expects a $320 million bill this year.) "Countries would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superpower Stiff | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

And yet the truth about the Texas Governor's brain is that he is much smarter, at least in terms of raw, innate aptitude, than he lets on. When his purloined college transcript from Yale was published in the New Yorker last week, the news only confirmed what we'd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Bush's grasp of the details and nuance of some domestic-policy issues--especially education--draws praise from experts around the country. He can also talk substantively and passionately about trade and immigration, two areas of "foreign policy" he encountered as Governor of a state that shares a 900-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Bush's ability to focus at the right time has yielded such results as tort reform in Texas. The bill had been languishing in the legislature in 1995. When state senator David Sibley, the G.O.P. author of the legislation, went to see Bush to tell him it was dead, Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

If history is their guide, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) staff will take a hard look at a problematic piece of equipment on the Boeing 767--the thrust reverser. These devices slow the aircraft down during landing by reversing the airflow from the engines. And while the devices are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Thin Air | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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