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...having a blast, I might say," said Josh Bloom...
From Wall Street to Main Street, that seems to be the prevalent opinion of Bill Clinton's yet-to-be-unveiled tax-and-spending policy. Such faith might seem a gossamer launching pad for a blast-off by the $6 trillion U.S. economy. And the President is clearly arousing hopes that he could have severe trouble fulfilling. But as the drum roll for Clinton's State of the Union speech next Wednesday gets louder, what was a limping recovery from the 1990-91 recession is quickening into something more like a sprint...
...would also blast coal mining states from Pennsylvania to Colorado and would raise costs for coal-burning utilities and their customers. In a recent letter to Clinton, Richard Disbrow, chairman of the American Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that...
...attacking a large comet or stony asteroid, however, the interceptors would have to take care not to blast their quarry into many large chunks, each of which would be a potential city killer. One way of avoiding that, workshop scientists suggested, is to use the neutron bomb, a weapon that delivers most of its energy in the form of speeding neutrons rather than an explosive blast. The neutron warhead would be detonated when the missile approached to about a distance equal to the radius of the asteroid. "The neutrons penetrate deeply into the near side of the asteroid," Canavan explains...
...somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...