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Scientists have long considered the highly variable organ of vision--from the kaleidoscopic eyes of insects to the gleaming eyes of cats--to be one of the greatest puzzles among all the structures invented by evolution. Did biology draw up a blueprint for eyes many times? Or are all eyes assembled according to the same rules...
Although he currently emphasizes deregulation, Wilson has traditionally upheld moderately active government. That too goes back to San Diego, where he halted runaway development and im- posed what became a widely imitated blueprint for "managed growth." "I have come to realize that my gut instincts as a young man were pretty valid, that there is a real role for government to do things for the public which they cannot do themselves," Wilson says. "However, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the kind of misfired good intentions that have led to huge increases in enrollment in entitlement programs...
...makers, they can try to define us into a little corner and try to split us apart, but they will fail. They will fail because we are not a party of opposition, as are they; we are builders with a goal and a blueprint. And now that we have Congress, once again it is morning in America...
...build a "contract" with moderate, middle class Democrats, the party's leading centrist group released their alternative to the GOP's congressional battle plan, vowing "hand-to-hand combat" to capture the legislative and political agenda. The Democratic Leadership Council's blueprint is obviously akin to the GOP "Contract with America," calling for deep budget cuts and a nearly complete reworking of federal housing and job training programs. But it also calls for health care reform and money for job training. And it cuts $75 billion in annual federal subsidies to agriculture, aerospace companies, the oil and gas industry...
...possibly adviser-in-chief Hillary Rodham Clinton, wants the President to consolidate his party base. If that means dwelling on civil rights, abortion rights and labor issues, it's probably an agenda that would appeal to a too narrow slice of the ever more conservative electorate. As a rough blueprint for post-apocalypse strategy, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, with the help of several other top aides, produced a memo one described as a "thought piece." The memo proposed that the President should attempt to govern from a "forceful center," working with Republicans who want to share...