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...Bush knows that Clinton got congressional Democrats - and the nation - used to a hundred little programs, a hundred little spending increases, one for every little need. He's hoping to buy them off with a goodly chunk of new spending on education, and pretty much call it a day. The selling point is a federal government with a little less pork, a little more efficiency, and, most important, one that's growing at something like 4 percent a year, a bit more than inflation but less than the growth rate of 8 percent last year and an average...
...bandwidth. But at most, it should be in place only until HASCS has time to implement long-term education campaigns and infrastructure improvements. A permanent firewall on the FAS network is not just at odds with this University's commitment to academic freedom. It would hide away a vast chunk of the Internet from those of us who stand to learn from it the most...
...Dickerson: Yes, he was just beyond the fence on E Street, which, unlike the chunk of Pennsylvania Avenue that runs right in front of the White House, is rarely closed...
...somehow "different." Contrary to the inaugural ramblings of George W., no angel is directing this whirlwind of a universe. The sooner we admit that no magical blanket, no invisible, magical spirit protects us from our own stupidity, the more probable it becomes that we will survive for a significant chunk of time. It is time that we grow up, finally make a wife of science, face facts, take responsibility for our own survival and use our new bride to cover our asses before the cold winds of the universe scatter our corporeal stardust to the far reaches of deep space...
...that is indeed the case, Earth's oceans and crust appeared only 200 million to 300 million years after its formation, when the planet was still being bombarded by large objects from space. One Mars-size chunk, by that calculation, would have slammed into Earth only 50 million years before the crystal formed, ejecting enough material to create the moon. Says University of Wisconsin (Madison) geologist John Valley: "Perhaps the moon formed earlier than we thought, or by a different process...