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...VIRTUAL-REALITY ACTORS Pay-per-view will become pay-per-play, allowing these pros to interact with you in cyberspace dramas. Scriptwriters will also be in high demand, as mouse potatoes clamor for new story lines to escape from their droned-out existence...
...revealing some of his thoughts on Social Security reform, Bush succumbed to the journalists and voters who clamor for specificity. For the Texas Governor, who has been caricatured as an intellectual lightweight, there's a special imperative to provide detail. It's seen as proof of gravitas. But specificity kills. Just ask Bill Bradley. He was running strong until he laid out a detailed health plan. Gore cherry-picked details and used them to paint the former Senator as both a spendthrift crazy and a Medicaid-destroying ogre...
...energy in the head and neck - a design flaw that's been fatal in 158 cases since 1990. (Air bags have, however, also saved an estimated 5,500 lives.) Friday's announcement follows considerable criticism of the government's mandated crash test procedure in the past decade. This clamor is unlikely to die down any time in the near future; transportation officials have also locked horns with consumer advocates who argue that the government's crash scenarios need to cover not only a wider array of passenger sizes, but a variety of speeds, passenger positions and angles of impact...
...become a regular pattern: Tragedy strikes, a giddy clamor for new legislation goes up and anyone who doesn't uncritically accept the hype is anachronistic, cold-hearted or--worst of all--a "member of the NRA." After all, if Britain, France and Canada can achieve a near-zero incidence of gun fatalities with "common sense" (i.e., prohibitive) laws...
With the new baseball season underway, residents of Boston and members of Red Sox nation have begun another clamor for the construction of a new stadium. Allegedly, it will happen this time--they even have blueprints. But unless Boston Mayor Tom Menino and the Beacon Hill gang actually mobilize in the next few months, the situation will look awfully similar to the football stadium debacle last year that almost led to the Hartford Patriots. The Red Sox are a Boston institution. They ought to get the infrastructure that they want for this project. Everybody wins with a new stadium...