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...impact of baby boom retirement on their grandchildren. It also brought to the surface a question that has been bubbling in Washington for the past few weeks: Has Bush chosen the wrong issue to burnish his legacy? What if he had reversed these two priorities, gone bold on energy independence--an issue on which compromise with Democrats is possible--instead of Social Security...
...bold nonviolent stroke" to which you refer is about as nonviolent as armed robbery. What if the Egyptian aircraft had refused to comply with U.S. fighter pilots' orders? Robert C. Barker Fort Smith, Ark. Cowboy Style...
...Soviet Communist Party are going to Geneva not just to haggle over missiles but to articulate strongly opposed views of the world and of each other's behavior. Yet that exchange, paradoxically, might indeed mark a new direction for superpower relations. Even though the opportunity of a bold stroke for peace may be squandered, the summit is likely to start a continuing dialogue that, no matter how spirited, would be better than the frozen silence in which the White House and Kremlin have eyed each other since Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev met in Vienna...
...gravity alters the development of organs responsible for balance. At one point a fruit fly escaped from its container and was quickly dubbed Willy. Later the astronauts found the ill-fated drosophila dead in a filter. Tongue in cheek, officials at Oberpfaffenhofen handed out an obituary for "our bold little astronaut...
...York City. Indeed, although she studied at the Juilliard School with Elliott Carter and the late Roger Sessions, both masters of almost gnomic complexity, Zwilich writes in a disarmingly open style. On the page her music looks as clear as Brahms'; to the ear it sounds as bold and vigorous as Shostakovich's or Prokofiev's. But it always remains her own. Says she: "The more I am true to myself, the more accessible I seem...