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Along with Christianity have come axes, cooking pots, clothing and bedding, but nomadic Penans insist that modern goods do not threaten their way of life. Most Penan hunters still prefer blowpipes to guns, and a group of headmen insists that if Western goods disappeared, their longhouses could get along just fine so long as the forest remained. This is why after years of arrests, imprisonment and fruitless legal efforts to halt the logging, the Penans continue to blockade the timber roads. "If we die," says Nyelik, "we die in the forest. There is no other place...
Sure, his advisers say this is not the Jerry whose dreamy futurism earned him the nickname "Governor Moon-beam." They insist that he's changed...
...Massachusetts, hospitals pay taxes that are funneled into a pool that pays medical costs for poor people who don't qualify for Medicaid. State officials insist their reimbursement program differs from those in most other states and should be able to qualify for more money...
...religious schools from participating in Choice experiments would automatically toss out Roman Catholic parochial schools -- the often successful large-scale competitor to troubled inner-city public schools. As political scientist Chubb, one of the authors of the Brookings plan, says, "We would insist that if there is genuine Choice, there has to be genuine competition. If there is competition, there must be alternative providers other than the existing public schools...
...plan's authors insist that Western aid would reduce the risk of economic and political chaos during the Soviets' reorganization of their economy and society. They conclude, "When measured in terms of the value of success in this endeavor, the costs will be low--much less than costs imposed by the likely alternatives, and if provided sooner, lower than later...