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...radar-absorbing materials or balloon decoys--may be enough to foil the U.S.'s pricey shield. Rogue states looking to deliver bombs could simply send them in on cargo ships or in suitcases. One of the few skeptics in Congress, Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, has proposed an amendment to next year's defense-authorization bill requiring that the missile shield be given more realistic tests employing the countermeasures that foes would be likely...
...learn about etiquette, how to stay out of fights and how to manage their time. The voluntary program would be available only to students ages 8 to 14, because "that is the age when youngsters start to crystallize their values," says my father. Though he is a Democrat, his idea sounds a little like the one uttered years ago by Republican Newt Gingrich. Gingrich proposed bringing back state-run orphanages to rescue at-risk children from unfit mothers. My dad admits the similarity between his idea and Newt's and doesn't apologize for it. "If it takes a fortress...
Change has been coming to Mississippi's mental-health-care system, but it has been slow. State senator Billy Thames, an influential Democrat, led reform efforts in 1997 after a close relative waited a month for an appointment at her local clinic. "I started making calls, and I could not get any help," he says. "What about the average person who doesn't know anybody?" Thames produced the Mental Health Reform Act of 1997, which, along with subsequent legislation, promised to create seven regional crisis-intervention centers that would keep the mentally ill out of jail, closer to their relatives...
...himself, in 1952, did represent a definite change after Democratic rule stretching back to the first inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. But the election of 1952 was mostly a mandate for Ike, not for the Republican way of life. Besides, before Eisenhower declared himself to be a Republican, the Democrats had hoped he would be their presidential candidate. If Ike had run as a Democrat and (inevitably) won, would that have been interpreted as a verdict for change...
...inauguration in January 2001. A coin toss at the DRP convention in August will determine which of them will call himself president and which will call himself vice president. By agreement, they will exchange the titles after the first four years. The "vice president" will run the DRP (for Democrat-Republican party) from a sleek new $10.2 billion headquarters in Oregon, while the "president" holds down the Oval Office in Washington...