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...bonhomie, Horn has also sparked controversy. At his confirmation hearing he backed away from writings in which he urged the government to give married couples preferences, such as putting them first on the list for public housing. But many on the left remain wary of him. The National Organization for Women opposed his nomination in part because he has written scathingly about no-fault divorce laws...
...fitting that Horn should end up in the middle of the marriage issue. His career parallels two decades' worth of debate over the meaning of family. As the head of outpatient psychological services at Washington's Children's Hospital in the 1980s, Horn saw the effects of broken homes and absent fathers. The experience pushed him to the right. His wife's becoming pregnant with two girls made him, he says, more sensitive to fetuses and a foe of legal abortion. In the Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, Horn was a mid-level appointee on family issues. Though...
After the first Bush Administration, Horn decided to take action. He ran the National Fatherhood Initiative, an independent (some say right-leaning) advocacy organization that works to get men to be good parents. While the group received money from conservatives like the Clinton-bashing Scaife Foundation, Horn quietly added his voice to a growing bipartisan consensus among politicians and policymakers for family cohesion. Indeed, though the typical Bush appointee looks at the Clinton era with disgust tempered only by ridicule, Horn is preternaturally bipartisan, even saying he "really, really respect[s] what Al Gore did" with his fatherhood initiative...
Beyond the Washington bickering, the question remains: Can the government really help create lasting marriages? No one knows. The few studies that have been done are promising but utterly inconclusive, which is O.K. by Horn. "Government ought not to be paralyzed by a lack of perfect knowledge," he says. "I believe that we ought to not be afraid to change if we're not getting the results we want. If it doesn't work, then we go on to something else." And by that, he doesn't mean divorce...
...five visionaries on our panel are--in addition to Kurzweil--Paul Horn, IBM senior vice president for research; Sandeep Malhotra, vice president for nanotechnology at Ardesta, an Ann Arbor, Mich., venture-capital firm and industry incubator; Chris Meyer, director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge, Mass.; and Melanie Mitchell, a research professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. They offer a glimpse of technologies--most of them already in use--that will reshape the way businesses are run and profits are made in the years ahead...