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...income Americans goes deep into Democratic territory and sounds like the perfect policy component to fit Bush's centrist rhetoric. The problem for Bush and his economic team is that none of the fixes they are considering are easy or cheap. Push back the phase-out of benefits to higher income levels, and the number of families receiving tax credits and subsidies explodes. Increase the size of standard deductions and child tax credits, and watch revenues shrink. Reduce the number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better...
That said, I am pleased to report that the likelihood of sweeping and lasting changes in the matter of America and guns has never been higher. There comes a time in every civilization when people have had enough of a bad thing, and the difference between this moment and previous spasms of reform is that it springs from the grass roots and is not driven by politicians or legal institutions. Gun-control sentiment is everywhere in the country these days--in the White House, the presidential campaigns, the legislatures, the law courts and the gun industry itself. But it seems...
...Robert Weinberg and colleagues showed that mouse cells would become cancerous when spiked with two altered genes. But when they tried such alterations on human cells, they didn't work. Since then, scientists have learned that mouse cells differ from human cells in an important respect: they have higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase. That enzyme keeps caplike structures called telomeres on the ends of chromosomes from getting shorter with each round of cell division. Such shortening is part of a cell's aging process, and since cancer cells keep dividing forever, the Whitehead group reasoned that making human...
...third was quotas. Tamil students applying to universities found themselves faced with quotas. If 20 percent of the population was Tamil, no more than 20 percent of the university students could be Tamil. This meant that Tamils had to score significantly higher than Sinhalese on university entrance exams...
...like cigarettes, where everyone supposedly knows they?re bad for you. This was a marketed drug whose dangers turned up later," says Cohen. "Any accusation that Wyeth-Ayerst knew about it beforehand is really going to resonate with a jury." And with Americans, as a population, reaching ever-higher levels of obesity, that?s a lot of sympathetic juries...