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Reagan was almost 70 when he was elected the first time, and he was not too old. But Dole at 73 was, because he had the crochets of old age--crabbiness, defensiveness. Reagan looked forward toward the horizon, saw the city on a hill and said, Let's go there. Dole looked back and saw flat Kansas, the boarders living upstairs and the family in the basement. He was emotionally landlocked. Where Reagan had a vision, Dole had only a picture: of Bob Dole sitting at a desk in the Oval Office and doing a good job. But a picture...
...through. People like Jesus and Buddha come along and say radical things that somehow stick in the world's consciousness. And the most animal of institutions--such as slavery--do seem slowly to die out. Who knows where this could lead? Personally, I'd rather see Eden on the horizon--however dimly and elusively--than in the rearview mirror...
...member of the committee can bring topics for discussion, and I want the committee to at least discuss any policy-relevant issue about student service that comes onto the horizon," she wrote...
...frontiers of medicine as the new millennium approaches, we decided that only a special issue could do justice to the subject. In the following pages we present the very latest developments in each of the major areas of medicine--and peer ahead at what may be on the horizon...
Each year it returns, stalking its victims through snowstorms and blizzards. And each year health officials race to stay ahead of the wily flu virus, which is constantly changing, by concocting new mixes of vaccines to head off novel strains. On the horizon are more sophisticated vaccines that incorporate a snippet of viral genome that is common to many strains. Once inoculated, a person would be protected against a number of different flu viruses for more than a year. Researchers have just begun testing the vaccine on people...