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...Summers, met with representatives of a number of non-governmental organizations before the weekend to underline the administration's efforts to bring the citizenry in on the discussion. But with both leading presidential candidates being free-trade boosters and Pat Buchanan's conservatism making him politically unpalatable to the bulk of the protesters despite his own hostility to international financial institutions, the protest movement may have little direct impact on U.S. presidential politics. But it's a heads-up to the professional politicians on both sides of Capitol Hill that a growing, and increasingly active, body of citizens...
...always been greatly indebted to Jim Vorenberg, especially for the summer he gave me in '73 when he came to Washington and took on the great bulk of the work of organizing and carrying out everything to do with the management of the Watergate special prosecution force," said Cox, who is also Loeb professor emeritus at the law school...
...prime issue for many of the demonstrators in Washington, as well as representatives from developing countries, is debt forgiveness. Economic development in many of the world's poorest countries is paralyzed by a crippling $350 billion debt burden, the bulk of which is owed to the IMF and World Bank. Many of the world's 40 poorest countries spend a considerable portion of their GNP (which in many cases is smaller than their debt) simply on paying the interest owed. It's a point of consensus now between all but the most diehard conservatives that without significant debt relief, billions...
...there it is! At the front of his collected correspondence, the bulk of which is filled with exchanges with Hume, Adam Ferguson, Burke and other leading lights of the day. The letter was written in 1741, and Smith's mother died in 1784--having saved this particular letter for 43 years. Would even the most loving mother save a comparable e-mail? Surely one could print it out--many do--but it would take a truly saintly matron to preserve the cold legibility of computer type on flimsy white paper. Oh, for the days of illegible, personal scratches on parchment...
...redesign isn't possible today, but it may not be far off. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School have already developed a way to equip a benign virus with genetic material that codes for muscle growth, and they have injected the virus into mice. The animals quickly bulk up by as much as 20%, becoming not just bigger but stronger. The researchers have developed other techniques to block cellular signals that would otherwise cause muscles to atrophy, allowing the new mass to be retained even without exercise...