Word: effective
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...voters either. Buchanan's supporters, as much as they admire their candidate, are not going to risk losing a third consecutive presidential election by wasting their vote with a candidate who has no chance of winning. Any vote for Buchanan by a conservative in America will have the same effect as a vote for the democratic candidate...
...remember I was talking to my literature teacher shortly after our ninth-grade finals were over when the teacher who taught some of the other classes for the same course barged into the room in a visible state of distress. She interrupted our conversation with loud cries to the effect that her students had learned nothing and that she might as well have been away windsurfing all year instead of lecturing...
...more than enough bombs to destroy all life on the planet," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Maintaining the readiness of that strategic arsenal is already being done via computer testing; the U.S. hasn't conducted an underground test in seven years." The treaty, which would only come into effect once all nuclear-capable states have ratified it, is, however, considered an important brake on the ability of China and other more recent nuclear states to modernize their arsenals. And that raises the stakes in the Senate impasse: "If this treaty fails it would damage U.S. leadership...
...only change from three to one or two to three, you won't see much of a statistical effect," Ehrenberg said...
Without even realizing it, we have begun case-by-casing what "improvements" we can ethically tolerate. This will eventually create a snowball effect, and we will find ourselves in a genetic twilight zone. The only way really to fix what we have done will be to continue fixing our genes. Here's hoping for wiser, not smarter. KELLY SCHROTER Middletown...