Word: draft
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...that other institutional changes will shore up the new public sphere. A healthcare system that puts the rich and poor together in the same doctors' offices and hospital rooms demonstrates an unequivocal refusal to value the lives of the rich more than those of the poor. Likewise a military draft. Although it provides and easy out for college-aged males who hesitate to face the risks and rigors of military service, the current All-Volunteer Force is the epitome of institutionalized social inequality; the poor boys get paid to get killed, and everyone else stays home. Earnest institutional changes Kaus...
...never said to the press that he's a philandering, pot-smoking draft dodger...
...fact that smoking causes lung cancer is so well established that only the tobacco companies still claim to have doubts. Now an Environmental Protection Agency review board, acting on a draft report produced within the agency, says nonsmokers are in danger as well. "Environmental tobacco smoke" -- better known as secondhand smoke -- inhaled by those who associate with smokers leads to about 3,000 cases of lung cancer a year in the U.S. and 300,000 cases of respiratory disease. Conclusion: secondhand smoke should be classified as a major carcinogen, which could lead to even stronger restrictions on smoking in public...
...Israelis are expected to concentrate on the big picture instead of trying to settle one issue at a time before moving to the next. They could draft an agreement in principle on the transfer of power to an interim government in the territories, then let working groups spell out the specifics. Palestinian negotiators would like this approach, and anticipate that Rabin's basic proposal for autonomy will be, in spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi's words, "much more comprehensive and serious" than Shamir's. But they are looking first for some tangible gestures to set the right tone: a complete brake...
What do these allegations have to do with a person's fitness to serve as President? Though no one is accusing Perot of extramarital affairs or dodging the draft, the charges aired by his former IBM colleagues help define that elusive quality called character. Voters may in fact decide that they are not bothered by a candidate who uses his elbows in the rough-and-tumble world of business. But whether a candidate likes it or not, running for President opens him to wide-ranging scrutiny. The examination can be particularly painful for a newcomer like Perot...