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...citizens in all their dealings with one another. As Zappa says, "Masturbation is not illegal. If it is not illegal to do it, why should it be illegal to sing about it?" He thinks this proves that Gore, who is not trying to make raunch in rock illegal, cannot even ask distributors to label it. Anything goes, as long as it's legal. The odd consequence of this argument would be a drastic narrowing of the freedom of speech. One could not call into question anything that was not against the law -- including, for instance, racist speech...
...final analysis, everyone from corporate chieftains to cab drivers realizes that the expansion cannot go on forever. "Someday, some event will end the extraordinary string of economic advances that has prevailed since late 1982," Greenspan told Congress last week. So far, Greenspan has provided a delicate touch in stifling inflation without making the kind of sudden moves that could trigger a recession. The U.S. may be in for only a brief and relatively innocuous reversal like the one in 1961 rather than the painful contraction of 1981-82, when the unemployment rate averaged 8.7%. The current slowdown...
...ranking Republican member, William Dickinson of Alabama: "The B-2 program is in a lot of trouble, not for technical reasons but simply by price tag." Declares Ohio Congressman John Kasich: "Nobody's pushed harder for the ((Secretary of Defense Dick)) Cheney / defense budget than I, but America cannot afford the B-2." To South Carolina Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr., cancellation of the B-2 is inevitable, "just like death and taxes...
Until much more testing is completed, the debate cannot answer a very basic question: Is the B-2 capable of attacking targets in the Soviet Union without being detected? The initial flight proved only that the boomerang-shaped delta wing can fly. It remains to be seen whether the sleek aerodynamic design, composite-plastics fabrication and other tricks intended to evade radar will actually work...
...elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked from the skulls of baby elephants, it could have earned $3 million. But, said Moi, "obviously Kenya cannot appeal to the world to stop buying - ivory if at the same moment we are selling the very same commodity...