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...North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given a couple hundred elves as his assistants. Stars shine in the north; a UNESCO chorale ladles Bosco over Henry Mancini's syrupy score; Dudley Moore, the chief elf, actually says, "If you give extra kisses, you get bigger hugs." The movie plays like a W.C. Fields nightmare: to drown in a vat of whimsy...
...teen pregnancy are directed at the group easiest to identify and help: adolescents who are already pregnant or have given birth. The goals: to ensure that the girls obtain adequate prenatal care, continue their education and learn how to be good parents. Providing prenatal care has become a bigger problem since 1982, when the Reagan Administration reduced the appropriation for the Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children, which offers nutritional supplements and medical care to low-income expectant mothers. The cuts, say critics, will prove expensive in the long run, because caring for undersize, ailing infants through Medicaid...
There is an even bigger stumbling block: a complete lack of experimental evidence. No particle accelerator has ever detected anything that suggests the existence of strings. Still, string theorists believe that the immediate goal is not necessarily to search for new particles but simply to reconcile the mathematics of the theory. Says Schwarz: "Experimentalists would love for me to say such and such is an unambiguous consequence of string theory, and if you find it, it's right, and if not, it's dead. But I can't say that yet. They'll just have to be patient...
...officials, back in 1972, who first convinced the Soviets that defensive systems should be restricted on the ground that they actually give impetus to the arms race by encouraging development of bigger and better offensive weapons. That resulted in the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which is still in force. Gorbachev had proposed, earlier this year, that both sides agree to abide by the ABM treaty for up to 20 more years, in the hope of curtailing the development of a Star Wars system. In the past few months, he had hinted that the Soviets would be willing to accept...
Meanwhile, Hyundai has also needed to be innovative to woo back reluctant customers. In 1998 the company began offering a 10-year warranty, the best in the industry at the time. And to compete with bigger brands, Hyundai loaded up its models with features that many of its rivals sell only as expensive extras. A 2006 Sonata for the U.S. market comes with six air bags (most competitors offer only four as the standard), a six-speaker CD and MP3 player, and an advanced antilock-braking system--all for less than...