Word: latters
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...would be at the top. Power and influence generally go hand in hand. Anyone who has the clout to make decisions with the stroke of a pen has influence over the way we think and live. But some people, particularly Presidents, are more notable for the former than the latter. Clinton is powerful. He can propose how to parcel out the federal budget, stock the federal courts and decide which uncooperative trade partners get spanked. Influential is another matter. When he succeeds at governing, as he has (for now) with the budget, he's a man who doesn...
...most visible sign so far of the hot, parched conditions has been an outburst of earlier-than-usual fires in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The latter two states have been especially ravaged, with New Mexico losing some 80,000 acres to flames and Arizona nearly 88,000. The conflagration that raced through northern New Mexico's Carson National Forest in early May particularly startled and unnerved experts. Says Mary Zabinski, fire-information officer with the U.S. Forest Service's southwestern region: "We have kiddingly called the Carson the asbestos forest because it is always so wet and at such...
...major setback for the peace process, but I don't think it's the end of the process. I believe the question is going to be whether or not Bibi is going to be the master or the captive of whatever coalition he puts together. I worry about the latter because there is so much greater fragmentation under Israel's new electoral system. But the desire for peace on the part of the Israeli body politic is very strong. Bibi is going to have to deal with that. He has laid down some very tough markers, such as no more...
...cultural memory is wound into his work so far as to completely remove it from the domain of pure, unsymbolic form. In a sense it is part of the great movement away from the national toward the local that characterized so much of European, including French, culture in the latter half of the 19th century...
...Women who undergo surgery for BREAST CANCER during the latter phase of the menstrual cycle--days 14 to 30--rather than during the first part of the cycle appear twice as likely to suffer a recurrence of the cancer, researchers have discovered...