Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced to step down as chairman of Madison Guaranty after banking regulators declared it insolvent. As the S&L crisis spread, Hillary and the litigation team at Rose realized that good money could be made representing the regulators in lawsuits involving failed thrifts. Many Rose partners opposed the idea of suing former clients on behalf of Washington, but after a series of acrimonious meetings, Hillary's view prevailed. But first Rose had to free itself of any potential conflicts, which meant ending its retainer with Madison. Hillary did so by writing a letter to McDougal and Latham in July...
Christopher suggested a summit meeting on terrorism to Clinton. Shimon Peres liked the idea, and so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton decided to go ahead. He and Mubarak jointly invited Peres, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Jordan's King Hussein, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and European and regional leaders to a conference this week at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Christopher also telephoned Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. "I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Syrians attend," he said...
...that there is no controversy, except among Bible literalists. It's true that evolution is "just a theory." So is Einstein's theory of relativity, the theory of plate tectonics and the theory of subatomic particles. Yet no one argues that teachers should present alternatives to these ideas, for the simple reason that no good alternatives exist. All these theories have unanswered questions, and any of them might someday be overturned by a new idea that explains the facts better. But at the moment, no other is even close...
...heavily promoted book, there is powerful evidence to support another hypothesis. Our Stolen Future (Dutton; $24.95) says a wide range of reproduction-related ills may be caused by chemical pollutants in the environment, including DDT, some forms of dioxins and PCBs, and a number of other synthetic substances. The idea is that exposure to even traces of these chemicals in the womb can interfere with proper development of the reproductive system, leading to serious consequences years or decades later. Male infertility is just one part of the problem, say the authors; these pollutants may also be responsible for a rise...
...everyone accepts the link between environmental estrogens and reproductive ills. The relationship, argues Stephen Safe, a professor of toxicology at Texas A&M University, remains "debatable and unproved." Even the idea that sperm counts are dropping worldwide is open to challenge. Some researchers have questioned Skakkebaek's methodology; they generally agree with his finding that there is a decline in Denmark but consider any broader interpretation more speculative. Several other researchers have shown that sperm counts in Finland, at least, have remained normal; a study of men in Toulouse, France, shows the same result. So, according to published reports, will...