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...health, just more in general. The deal passed last week was historic because it balanced the budget for the first time in nearly 30 years, made the biggest tax cut in 16 years and managed both without bloodshed. It was left to sober economists to swat away all that confetti and note that the economy was going to do a lot of that anyway and that the big, important issues--like fixing Social Security and Medicare--had all been quietly tabled...
...balloons have all popped, the confetti been swept away. Lawn signs will be pulled down and bumper stickers will erode. High school bands in swing states will go back to playing at football games instead of political rallies. Our airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
...raise such money out of thin air, but for something as important to a University as its books, the money can be found. We recommend that the administration put its money where its mouth is, step up to the plate and act before Widener begins selling its books as confetti. (March...
...called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided to reverse the order: purge the cancer first, then collect...
...picks and chooses where it spends its money very carefully, and if something is necessary, the money can be found. Therefore, we recommend that the administration put its money where its mouth is, step up to the plate and act before Widener begins selling its books as confetti...