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...rays from reaching your skin.) But even the best sunscreen won't protect you forever. If it normally takes you 10 min. to burn, a sunscreen rated SPF-15 gives you 15 times 10 min., or 2 1/2 hr. of roasting time. Any more, and you'll exceed your radiation dose for the day, even if you reapply...
Critics offer a solution: tort reform. They have been pushing for years for restrictions that would make it harder for trial lawyers to collect large punitive-damage awards, which often far exceed the actual damages. Forty-five states have enacted civil-justice-reforms laws that limit such awards; and the Republican-backed Litigation Fairness Act, which is pending in the Senate, would make lawsuits filed by the government subject to the same procedures and laws that apply to injured persons...
...what Jospin's government has accomplished since coming to power in June 1997. He has totally or partially privatized more state-owned companies than his conservative predecessors, including such behemoths as Thomson Multimedia, Air France and France Telecom. France's economic growth this year is projected by some to exceed 4%, the strongest performance of any major European country. Though France was slow to plug into the Internet, it is quickly closing the gap, and its burgeoning New Economy could account for as much as 20% of all French production this year...
...Religion does, a bit. The selection of running mates, a pseudo-scientific calculation, does engage an instinct for political chemistry and physics - chemistry, because that is what is supposed to result, vividly, when you combine the two candidates; and physics, such that the gravitas of Number 2 may not exceed the gravitas of Number 1 (exception: see "Colin Powell," above...
...maps of the pertinent features of neurons, neural connections and synapses in the human brain--including all the neural details that play a role in the behavior and functionality of the brain--and to re-create these designs in suitably advanced neural computers. By that time, computers will greatly exceed the basic computational power of the human brain. The result will be machines that combine the complex and rich skills of humans with the speed, accuracy and knowledge-sharing ability that machines excel...