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...Wisconsin shows, workfare with adequate social supports is much more expensive than welfare, and even the additional $3 billion now allocated in the Senate will not be enough. Simply ignoring child-care needs, as the Republican bill did initially, seems punitive and cruel, especially when the jobs are dead-end and low wage. At the Fairfax County, Virginia, welfare office, the few positions listed on the bulletin board last week ranged from pet grooming to newspaper delivery (report at 4 a.m., not a great time to get a baby sitter) to child care, all at minimum wage. Only when...
...next few hours, there was not much to distinguish this space spectacular from the dead-end Apollo-Soyuz mission. Astronauts and cosmonauts drank toasts, exchanged symbolic gifts (flowers, candy and fruit for the crew on Mir; the traditional Russian hospitality offering of bread and salt for the Americans), toured each other's spacecraft and issued properly portentous statements about cooperation in space--as did officials on the ground, including Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin...
...theory, therefore, RISC chips are the wave of the future and CISC chips are a technological dead-end. Most microprocessor companies have voted with their feet by shifting design resources to RISC-based architectures. MIPS, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Sun Microsystems, IBM, Apple and Motorola are all converts...
...communists had announced in advance that they would not deal with him. Throughout the seven days of his presidency, South Vietnamese politicians and their American and French advisers intrigued furiously to arrange another transfer of power. Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, a former head of government and advocate of dead-end resistance, alternately got the impression from American visitors that he was being urged to stage a coup and fight to the last, or that the U.S. wanted him to smooth the way for Big Minh to take over. Ky remembers telling an American general that if Minh did take...
Richard Linklater dazzled many among the twentysomething set with his last movie, "Slacker." Portraying the dead-end life in sleepy Austin, Texas, the film was embraced by Generation Xers who felt it explained why they were so determinedly listless. "Before Sunrise" -- his newest effort -- may serve a similar purpose for the same group in their attempts to express their romantic feelings, says TIME critic Richard Corliss. Still, the movie, which basically follows an extended conversation between a guy and a girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets...