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WASHINGTON, D.C: As the Terrorism Bill languished unsigned, late on Thursday night House Speaker Newt Gingrich led his Republican cohorts through six hours of fiery partisan debate concerning a matter the Speaker views as an urgent remedy to avoid "the decay of core parts of our civilization." Inspired, the House passed H.R. 123, which makes English the official language of the United States. The legislation requires most documents to be printed in English, eliminates tax return instructions and ballots written in Spanish or other languages, as well as citizenship ceremonies conducted in foreign languages. Averting the need for a major...
Bainbridge was also the first scientist to discover that the decay time of radioactive materials may depend on chemical composition...
...amusing thing is [Bainbridge's papers] came out just after one of these papal encyclicals, summarizing the state of scientific knowledge, which said that nuclei decay at the same rate, no matter the chemistry," Wilson says. "We were kidding him that he was in trouble with the pope...
...House correspondent Eric Pooley. "Everything Clinton's doing this year is designed to make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many of the nation's 80,000 public schools. Another GAO report has estimated that repairing and upgrading schools would cost $11 billion. Clinton plans to pay for his $5 billion program with funds from the federal government's auctions of communications licenses, which have generated about...
...consequences of inadequate public investment are all too apparent in the economic and physical decay that has eaten away at many of America's largest urban areas. It is not surprising that a city like my hometown of Detroit has suffered greatly due to the poor maintenance of its already deficient infrastructure and the lack of any strong ties with its wealthy suburbs (although Detroit's decay can be attributed to many other factors as well). Although Boston will never degrade to the extent that Detroit has, improvement projects like the Big Dig will ensure that Boston remains a vibrant...