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Masahide Ota, Okinawa's Governor, flew to Tokyo to lodge a protest with U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale and the Japanese government. Ota and most other Okinawans want the island's 40 American facilities, which occupy 20% of its land, to be moved elsewhere. Now that the Russian threat to Japan has receded, many Okinawans have lost patience with daily live-fire exercises, roaring F-15 jets and rowdy American service members. Polls show that as many as 80% of the islanders want the bases either closed or greatly reduced in size. "The people," says Ota, "are fed up with...
...troubles flew in the face of some of Wilson's fondest boasts. Shuttling from Sacramento, California, to points East late this summer while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above...
...economists Arthur Laffer and Robert Mundell, along with the editorial-page writers of the Wall Street Journal--gazed on a new idea. If you cut tax rates, the thinking went, people would keep more of their earnings, work harder, and the economy would boom. Since the supply-side message flew in the face of G.O.P. economic orthodoxy, they cried in the wilderness until they were heard by Ronald Reagan, who opened his first term with a three-year cut of income tax rates...
...heralded study, conducted by French researcher Jacques Benveniste and published by Nature in 1988, was challenged by a Nature-sponsored team of investigators who flew to Paris to watch Benveniste repeat his experiments. The team found that the tests were "ill-controlled" and failed to exclude "systematic error, including observer bias...
...hours of my arrival, I marched myself over to the Science Center basement. Like a frenzied addict, I plopped myself in front of one of the large new monitors and got ready for a quick fix. Surfing the internet for the first time in three months, minutes flew by like seconds, hours like minutes...