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Certainly there is room for improvement in Clinton's plan, particularly in its credibility. Many detect a widening gap between Clinton's plan and his rhetoric. Ross Perot brought his traveling road show to a joint House and Senate panel and complained that Clinton's effort to call a new tax on Social Security benefits a spending cut was too sneaky by half. "Just call a spade a spade," said Perot. "It's not a savings, it's a tax." Similarly, the President denounced government waste last week, but he is not above rolling the pork barrel himself. He found...
...even though narrative has its own logic, the modern readers is at a disadvantage. Eco pointed out that we are not "model" readers who can intuitively detect textual subtleties as intended, but "empirical" readers, who impose our own passions on the text...
...damaged area, investigators will face the tedious process of finding chemical traces and fragments of the vehicle to help identify the type of bomb. Most well-known terrorist groups have their own "signatures" -- characteristic explosive compounds, detonators and even device designs. If investigators find enough clues, "they can detect who made this particular bomb," says Professor Robert Phillips, an expert in terrorism at the University of Connecticut. "They're able to detect even individual bombmakers' ways of doing things, of placing wires, of placing fuses, how they put the whole thing together. There aren't lots of people...
SHOULD WOMEN UNDER 50 HAVE MAMMOGRAMS TO detect breast cancer? The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society say yes -- every year or two. But a Canadian study last year seemed to say no, and an accumulation of new research supports that conclusion. While older women benefit from the specialized X-ray procedure -- those who have mammograms are less likely to die of breast cancer than those who don't -- there appears to be no difference in mortality for younger women. Mammograms may be much less likely to detect incipient tumors in younger women because their breast tissue...
...scientists at UCLA believe they have found a solution. In their study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they used a new test that separates the maternal antibodies from infant blood samples. No longer camouflaged, the AIDS virus was easy to detect...