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...presence as presidential administrations come and go. Although Al Gore, like most other presidential candidates, warmly applauded the appointment, he may have the most to lose if Greenspan does slow the economy. (George Bush Sr. is reported to believe that he lost to Bill Clinton in 1992 because Greenspan hadn't lowered interest rates to lift the economy out of a recession.) But then, it's an article of faith in today's New Democrat/Compassionate Conservative consensus that even when Greenspan's medicine tastes a little bitter, it's still good...
...putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long shown the ability to memorize a number sequence by, say, counting to five, but researchers hadn't previously confirmed that the animals actually understood the concept of counting or were simply parroting their trainers. But since it presents the numbers at random, the Kyoto study offers some pretty conclusive proof that animals can actually grasp the building blocks of mathematics...
Though they all live about an hour north of Seattle, the Troxels haven't seen these granddaughters in almost a year because of a dispute with the girls' mother that started after the Troxels' son Brad died. The couple hadn't married and were estranged at the time of Brad's death. The Troxels had bonded with the girls during weekly visits with their father. Later their mother married, and her husband adopted the girls...
...when my family traveled around the country anybody ever took a long look at us and said, "You folks from Kansas City, or what?" For one thing, the organizations that seem to believe it's helpful (or maybe amusing) to publicize urban poundage comparisons hadn't yet got into gear. But I think it's fair to say we didn't give the impression of having missed a lot of meals. The only nutritional theory I ever heard from my father was that you couldn't gain more weight from eating food than the food itself weighed--so a person...