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Despite these evasions, Alexander's "less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
There are less risky ways to dampen the effects of cheap foreign labor on American wages, but they are the tools of Democrats, not Republicans. Trade deals like NAFTA can require member nations to have a high minimum wage, maintain strict environmental regulations or guarantee the right to unionize. Such rules directly confront the problems of inhumanely low wages and reckless environmental degradation--the Third World production shortcuts that Buchanan says justify his social tariff. But Buchanan's ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty...
...good as the numbers sound, Ferrara's real assets are his knack for quick thinking and his leadership abilities. It was those qualities that Harvard missed most in the Yale game. And, thankfully for the Crimson, knee injuries do nothing to dampen them...
...fetched, it jibes with two decades of research suggesting that serotonin plays a role in regulating sexual behavior. One piece of evidence is the action of the drug Prozac, which relieves depression by lifting serotonin levels in the brain. At the same time, though, the serotonin boost tends to dampen sexual desire. In contrast, low serotonin levels can produce heightened sexual activity, at least in lab animals. In experiments done in the U.S. and Italy, scientists used drugs and special diets to suppress serotonin in rats, mice, cats and rabbits. The result was increased sex drive and, sometimes, homosexual couplings...
...planned. Last week, three days after the government took Microsoft's side in court on an appeal related to the consent decree, the Justice Department filed suit to block the Microsoft-Intuit merger. The $2 billion deal, government antitrust lawyers argued, would reduce competition, raise software prices and dampen innovation...