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...scientific viability of the $60 billion system that's hotly contested between advocates and critics. For one thing, there's the sharp disagreement over the extent of the supposed threat to America's cities. Advocates, led by hawkish Republicans and their allies in the military and the arms industry, insist that North Korea could be in a position to drop warheads on your home town by 2005; critics dismiss this timetable. And even if Pyongyang, whose missile program has been dormant for the past two years, could muster the technical wherewithal to develop such long-range missiles, the naysayers argue...
...fighting with Martin. You cannot help comparing what happens in this movie with what we have been horrified to see, the day before yesterday, in the Balkans. Civil wars--which our Revolution was--are even more relentless and unforgiving than other kinds of war, Rodat and Emmerich insist...
...Bush spokesman denies any coordination, but these groups may soon become less shadowy. The Senate last week approved a measure requiring disclosure of their finances. The House voted it down, but supporters say they'll insist on bringing it back...
...short run, and that medicine's reasons may at least serve to counter some disability, acquired or inherited. If I were to lose my eyes, I would quite eagerly submit to some sort of surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely...
...prosperity and progress tour," which, like many of Gore's slogans, doesn't roll off the tongue as well as it could. But it plays to the strengths of the sort-of incumbent. Gore will highlight, again and again, the booming economy and skyrocketing surpluses and insist he's got wiser ways to spend the dough than Bush. Safer ways to save Social Security and Medicare. A better, targeted tax cut - targeted being the operative word, as opposed to Bush insistence on an across-the-board that helps rich folks too - which Gore upped to $500 billion after hearing about...