Word: bushed
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...early polls that show Gore running behind both George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole are not as worrisome to Democrats as are two deeper trends. First, the largely untested Texas Governor gets significantly higher leadership marks than Gore. Second, if the election were held today, Bush would not only thump Gore among Republicans and moderates but win about 1 out of 3 Democrats as well. Even Clinton has started sharing his misgivings about Gore's performance with political associates...
Whatever his problems, Gore would not trade places with anyone else in the field. "He's out in an exposed position, revving up for a real campaign," says Squier, noting that Bush, for all his appeal, has been "unwilling to leave home. He is not strengthening himself for what is going to be a very rough-and-tumble campaign." Maybe. But while no one will ever make it through a modern presidential campaign without battle scars, it would help Gore if so many of his weren't self-inflicted...
...ANOTHER BUSH IN BLOSSOM
...M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush builds Differential Analyzer, a mechanical computer...
...Vannevar Bush is an unlikely cyberculture hero. After all, he was F.D.R.'s World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext...