Word: ideas
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Those numbers were not lost on the Senators stapled to their seats as Clinton's lawyers launched their defense. The lawyers' presentation was more factual, more respectful and more effective than anything they managed in the House. The idea was to alternate sober, numbing presentations of exculpatory evidence with passionate appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question...
...speculate that we are not so tied to natural selection pressures," Gorman says. "We have the ability to shape our environment." What about the belief that sex is good for you? Since the study shows that the rate of genetic errors is high, "the study supports the idea that sexual reproduction is a way to keep down the problems caused by genetic errors," she says. The mixing of genetic materials from two persons allows some harmful mutations to be nixed rather than simply replicated without end, as would be the case with asexual reproduction. So could all this lead...
...America exhortation signed at the weekend, the pope denounced "unbridled consumerism" and a "system (that) considers profits and the law of the market as its only parameters." But to a U.S. President who considers the humming economy his greatest achievement, curbing consumerism will hardly seem like a good idea...
Except what if those people are too busy to care? A man who takes his faith so seriously that he once washed a departing staff member's feet as a gesture of thanks, Brownback has an idea about what his constituents are praying for these days: "They just want it over with," he says. And however it turns out, they tell him, it will have no effect whatever on their lives. "That," he says quietly, "is an amazing thing...
...pack hike in the federal cigarette tax and helping disabled Americans keep their health insurance. However hard it is for him to give the speech, it may be harder for Congress to hear it. If all goes his way, the Senate will wake up on Wednesday wondering whose idea this trial was anyway...