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...must rely on one of the two major parties to give it to us, though neither is equal to the task. For all intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are both incumbent parties, and the prospect that either will cede some of their own power is dim. Nonetheless, it is the only way. In this election year, members of both parties, or at least those that care about a vital democracy, must call on their candidates to take this important step quickly...
...latest dim idea is to remove conductors from trains to cut costs. Currently, trains are operated by a driver and a conductor, who is responsible for opening and closing the doors. Conductors make sure that no one is caught in the doors and dragged alongside the train, which usually results in serious injury, if not death. Even with conductors on the job, such accidents sometimes occur...
...scourge of the elderly: a progressive, relentless disorder. Doctors have greatly improved the accuracy of iagnosis, but they can neither cure Alzheimer's disease nor arrest its victims' horrifying decline, as their minds--and the memories that fill them--grow inexorably dim, then fade away. Indeed, despite all the new knowledge about how the brain works--or perhaps even because of it--medical researchers seem as far from understanding what causes Alzheimer's as they have ever been...
Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
...reconsidering his plans to move into the ordinary White House. Filled with every imaginable high-tech gadget and computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc player that shows films in eight different languages...