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...Republican Party has chosen to wage its campaign for the executive branch on the very principle of opposition. What does Bob Dole have to offer America beside himself? Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd. Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp, and so it was he who made a fine selection for a ticket bound to fail alongside its success-proof policies...
...bigger headache is that unlike the telephone system, cable networks were designed for one-way communication: a single strong signal transmitted down a tree-and-branch system to thousands of passive users who aren't sending any data back. Sending a high-bandwidth signal from head-end to home in such a system is easy; getting thousands of individual signals back upstream--which is what a neighborhood of people E-mailing one another represents--turns out to be a nightmare...
Disorders in men, the problem in 40% of infertile couples, used to be considered a lost cause. "Until two years ago, couples in which the man was infertile were told to find a sperm donor," says Dr. Michael McClure, chief of the reproductive-sciences branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Or they were essentially advised about adoption. Things were that dismal. But now a significant portion of male infertility may be treatable...
...hantavirus, it kills only a small percentage of those who get it. But unlike those two more horrific diseases, the flu is so contagious that nearly everyone gets it. That's what happened in 1918, when 20 million people died. Says Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's influenza branch: "We can say with certainty that there will be another pandemic. We just don't know when...
...this year, these became the core of a Democratic plurality that, with the support of independents and moderate Republicans, was able to capture the White House. But this coalition, united largely by a concern that the current brand of G.O.P. conservatism is too extreme to control more than one branch of government, is not likely to hold...