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...heating up the planet. all the signs seem to point that way: storms have become more intense and weather patterns more erratic; the past decade has been by far the hottest on record; and the rise in temperature has been greatest in polar regions and around cities. These facts dovetail ominously well with the theory that carbon dioxide (CO 2), released by burning coal, oil and gasoline for heat, electricity and transportation, is trapping excess energy from the sun. Global warming is real--and will probably get worse...
...taken by the mainland as a major provocation - and that's a prospect that would weigh heavily on the mind of any U.S. president. Still, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms lashed out at the decision as appeasement of Beijing, and the Taiwan arms issue may yet dovetail with the labor and human rights concerns of the House Democratic leadership to scupper the trade deal for this year...
Even though the theory remains to be proved, its implications dovetail with the experiences of parents like Michele Colburn, a working mother from Washington who recently spent six months battling lice on her 11-year-old daughter. "The lice would disappear from her head and then reappear," Colburn recalls. "I went to the public library at the National Institutes of Health and read up everything on lice. I borrowed a magnifying glass that is used in the museum for conservation work so that I could check her head for lice. I tried every shampoo on the market. I bagged...
These radical notions dovetail with a spiritual movement known as process theology, whose proponents argue that God evolves along with man. In their mind, the immutable God embraced by scholars like Plantinga make no more sense today than an unchanging computer operating system. "If God doesn't change, we are in danger of losing God," says William Grassie, a Quaker professor of religion at Temple University, "There is a shift to [the idea of] God as a process evolving with us. If you believe in an eternal, unchanging God, you'll be in trouble...
Morris' outstanding achievement has been to help his client re-create his image through "triangulation"--standing between and even above the two parties by embracing issues that lie "outside the box" of traditional two-party politics. Many of them dovetail with the family-values agenda that conservative Republicans have long counted as their own. In 1992, when Vice President Dan Quayle began working this territory, Clinton called it divisive. But Morris has been drawing on these ideas since at least 1990, when he first worked for Senator Coats, a conservative protege of Quayle's. Morris tried to get Coats...