Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if some sort of relationship is maintained, the notion of cooperative adoption may raise unsettling questions for the children. In an era of divorce, remarriage and yours-mine-and-ours families, it is perhaps less anomalous than it once was to contend with two sets of parents. Still, what does the child call this woman who comes to visit and sends the birthday cards? What is he or she to think when that person later has children she decides to keep? Worst of all, what happens if the birth mother, having endeared herself to her child, suddenly stops coming...
...Even more controversial is Moore's suspicion that lowering cholesterol does not increase one's odds for a longer life. In the major studies that have probed this issue, people with low cholesterol got heart disease less often than those with high levels. But, as Moore points out, the low-cholesterol people did not live longer on average, because some of them died from other ailments. Whether this was by chance or the result of low cholesterol remains an open question. That puzzling outcome does not overly impress most researchers. They feel that as additional, longer studies are completed...
...professor Laurence Tribe that the court is likely to "tune them down." Says Tribe: "Americans have been accustomed to the idea that the Supreme Court is a refuge for the disadvantaged, the dispossessed and the dissident. We are entering an era in which increasingly the court will be less a court of last resort." One result is that many would-be federal lawsuits will be filed in more liberal state courts; another is that legal disputes may be translated into political battles, to be fought in the corridors of state legislatures and the halls of Congress...
...trick is to become more like Indians without losing the best parts of cowboy culture -- rationalism and the spirit of inquiry. We need more science now, not less. How can we stretch our nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments...
RESTORING AN IRA DEDUCTION. We spend more than we produce and fail to save nearly enough to remain competitive. Restoring the Individual Retirement Account incentive, as House Democrats proposed, would nudge the average family to spend a little less and save a little more -- just what the doctor ordered. More saving and less borrowing would also tend to lower interest rates, which would benefit rich and poor alike...