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This every-which-way process has been at work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool. Until about 500 years ago, however, innovation in a world moving at the speed of agriculture came infrequently, giving time for accommodation and a complacent sense of establishment. Then Columbus rediscovered America, and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under every form of Western authority. America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood...
...Bentonville, Ark., tweaking both Gore and President Clinton with rallies in their home states. Gore, who was on the road until early Tuesday morning, is also taking a break at home in Carthage, Tenn. The vice president worked a 30-hour day Monday, flying between Iowa, St. Louis and Flint, Mich. before arriving in Florida...
...Quoth the Times: "By the time he arrived this evening in Flint, Mich., Mr. Gore was punchy from exhaustion, his face puffy and pink, with rivulets of sweat meandering down his cheek. He sucked on lozenges as he spoke, but they did little to soothe his hoarseness." Gore also thanked "Rogers Hornsby" and his band for warming up the crowd before a Dearborn rally...
...will be turnout that wins this thing, from the popular vote to the electoral-college battlegrounds where the election is constitutionally won. Turnout in Philadelphia, and Detroit, and Flint. Turnout in Florida, and Florida, and Florida. (For the other Clinton heir, turnout in New York City, which is why Bill Clinton left a message on my answering machine today. I didn't pick up - figured he had a lot of other calls to make...
...there were differences and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and Big Oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? Bush's Social Security...