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...Improve Your Memory and Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience, by gerontologist Ward Dean and science writer John Morgenthaler. It lists three dozen steroids for the brain, or, to the cognoscenti, "nootropics" (from the greek noos, for mind). The authors claim that these substances resuscitate memory, jump-start the intellect, fuel sex drive and even reverse the mental aging process. Some, like the drugs Hydergine and piracetam, are prescription medications that have been tested as potential treatments for degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer's. Smart drinks are generally mixed from nonprescription food supplements like amino acids, the building...
...university" hand--you have the banality of Depeche Mode "People are people, so why should it be; that you and I should get along so awfully?" It's not so banal when it comes from a victim of racial injustice like Rodney King, who held a press conference to jump-start the national healing process. "Can't we all get along?" he asked...
...relief for ordinary Americans. Tsongas argued that the middle-class tax cut and the tax credit for children younger than 18 -- both moves favored by Clinton -- would divert $55 billion a year from investment. In Tsongas' mashed metaphor, Clinton would waste precious "bullets" that could be used to jump-start the economy's manufacturing "engine." Only "when the engine runs," Tsongas said, can the country afford "other kinds of things," such as tax relief...
...became the center of "Buy America" campaigns. In Warren, Ohio, an ear surgeon, Dr. William Lippy, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400 cash if they bought a new American car. Lippy became a favorite of morning television talk shows when he invited other businesses to join his "Jump-Start America" campaign. He claims to have enlisted a total of 175 firms with 60,000 workers to offer similar incentives...
Apart from the equity of it (the rich have already had their top tax bracket cut from 70% in 1980 to an effective 34% today), you have to wonder whether a broad capital-gains tax cut would really serve to jump-start the economy. Wouldn't it loose an awful lot of pent-up selling pressure on the real estate and stock markets? If the tax were cut, my own first thought wouldn't be "Great! What can I buy?" It would be "Great! What should I sell?" And one thing we don't need right now -- ask any banker...