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...President-elect Clinton knows, however, the economy is undeniably the crucial issue to most Americans. To produce real fiscal change, Clinton's policies will need a considerable amount of time before they bear concrete results. Nonetheless, Clinton, who says he will "focus like a laser beam on this economy," has proposed some immediate changes that he plans to enact quickly in order to jumpstart the economy and bring it out of the current recession...
...sending Washington a laser-light message to listen to the people," Perot said in Dallas. "You have changed this country through your massive efforts...
...weapons of the future will look like they came straight out of Star Wars or RoboCop: everything from hand-held laser swords to autonomous robots programmed to kill. The long-term trend, as demonstrated in the Persian Gulf last year, is toward short battles conducted at long distance by increasingly intelligent machines. Defense experts predict that the next arms race will be to develop the smartest, stealthiest and most accurate weapons and to demonstrate their superiority convincingly enough in advance to avoid risking lives and expensive hardware on the battlefield...
...have already made motors smaller in diameter than a human hair. Drexler believes a bundle of nanorobots, weighing practically nothing, would be the perfect interstellar emissaries. Having arrived at a planet or asteroid around some distant star, perhaps in a solar sailship pushed to high speeds by a powerful laser beam from earth, they would go to work, antlike, building radio transmitters and other gear to report home for new instructions. They could also reproduce themselves and their ships in order to send off a new set of explorer robots...
...Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such an impact upon style and fashion...