Word: inheritability
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...cliff. We can have a bit of genetic justice without much risk of tumbling into Stalinism. The same politicians who voted last week to forbid genetic discrimination, because they apparently believe you should not gain any advantage or suffer any disadvantage as a result of the genes you inherit from your parents, have also voted to abolish the estate tax, because they apparently believe there should be no limit whatsoever on how much money you can inherit. Go figure...
...parents hand us a world driven mad by violence and fear. We inherit a legacy of consciously cultivated division and rage. We have been taught to fight each other, yet as youth, we have more cause than any group to be united. We share in the fact that as young people, we must inhabit this world the longest. As the most recent arrivals, we have the least stake in the old feuds and irrational strife of the past. Today—bound together by instantaneous global communication—we are conscious of this in a way no other generation...
...protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise of high-defi nition video formats.Sony’s Blu-ray DVD and Toshiba’sHD-DVD formats recently waged a battleto inherit the home theater.Sony announced in January 2007 thatit would prohibit U.S. adult fi lms frombeing distributed in Blu-ray. Yet despitethe popularity of porn, Toshiba lost themost recent format war when it announcedon Feb. 19 that it would ceaseproduction of HD-DVD.Blu-ray’s website is now somethingof...
...predecessors. Depending on what your leanings are, you could compare his work history - lawyer, state legislator, Washington short-timer, orator - to Abraham Lincoln's, or to a thousand forgotten figures in politicalgraveyard.com. The question of experience takes on added bite this year, though, because the next President will inherit a troubled and menacing satchel of problems. From the Iraq tightrope to the stumbling economy, from the China challenge to the health-care mess, from loose nukes to oil dependence to (some things never change) Cuba policy - the next President will be tossed a couple dozen flaming torches...
Politicians always talk about how young people will inherit the future. And, of course, that is literally true. But I've always suspected that politicians talk about young people not because they are trying to reach young voters but because that's what older voters like to hear. Traditionally, the older you are, the more likely you are to vote; the younger you are, the less likely. For generations, older voters have been making decisions for young people, who stayed away from the ballot...