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Florida Governor Jeb Bush boasted last week, "I know someone in Washington" who will help expand the state's prescription-drug program. His confidence is well placed--his brother George carries a little weight in the capital, which might not hurt Jeb's chances for re-election. In fact, Florida seems to have done quite well by having a friend in the White House. Here are a number of examples that Jeb could cite. --By Michael Peltier...
...sort of military superiority that experts assert and will shy away from war. Musharraf claims that along the border areas, Pakistan can match India man for man, tank for tank, jet for jet. That could leave Vajpayee with the unpalatable option of allowing a limited engagement in Kashmir to expand into a costly ground war along the wider border, something fraught with the potential of nuclear escalation...
...People will beam their flow of sensory experience on the Web, so you can plug in and be someone else, a la Being John Malkovich. We will be able to expand human intelligence." --Ray Kurzweil
Lowell came to office with a mandate to combat grade and honors inflation, increase the size of the Faculty and expand the University—a mandate strikingly similar to that given to University President Lawrence H. Summers in the last year...
Lowell recognized that the former star departments could no longer carry the University, and that in order to ensure quality and excellence in his hires, he had to expand the number of endowed chairs...