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Viva Gore! A liberal Harvard education under his belt, this son of Tennessee (or is it Washington, D.C.?) enjoys staying up with the scientific community. Aides have reportedly seen him poring over back issues of Science magazine in the Congressional library. His favorite article to appear in Science is likely the relatively recent "Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy," which reported that "many climate experts caution that it is not at all clear yet that human activities have begun to warm the planet--or how bad greenhouse warming will be when it arrives...
Anyone campaigning for optimism runs the risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his famous fable of the Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism - not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...
...rear view mirror. Not much happens in these parts. That's the way most people want it. Populated with deeply religious people who like their religion like they like their barbecue sauce--fiery and covering everything--the west Texas Panhandle is one of the last notches on the Bible Belt...
...serious" scenes, one dealing with transsexuality and one dealing with AIDS, are interposed within the generally lighthearted humor of the rest of the show. This further confuses the potentially serious social criticism with the entertainment component of a hypothetical society's exclusion of those bearing erect skyscrapers below the belt...
...settled into an exit row, buckled the seat belt, then tried to get my briefcase from under the seat in front of me. I couldn't reach it. My feet didn't reach the floor, either. These weren't plane seats; they were CEO chairs, meant for the big guys. Even though we hadn't taken off yet, I felt as if I'd already arrived...