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...From Bush it is more of the same, a laissez-faire embrace of free markets, a scarcely subtle survival-of-the- fittest signal. The Republicans, it is clear, see nothing wrong with extending the Me decade indefinitely; no matter that Reagan's trickle-down nostrums, which were supposed to lift all boats, have so far lifted only yachts...
...rockets will go the way of the dinosaurs. Future spacefarers will look back on the notion of sending people (or anything precious) aloft on huge, lumbering towers of flame and smoke as primitive, brutal and notoriously unreliable. Before the next millennium is very far along, humans will get their lift from space planes that take off and land like conventional jets but are powered by "scramjets" that, once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp up the sides...
...combat the greenhouse effect with the "White House effect," and mercilessly attacked Michael Dukakis for his failure to clean up Boston Harbor. But last June, President Bush played Scrooge at the Earth Summit in Brazil. In September he visited timber country in the Pacific Northwest, where he promised to lift a court-imposed injunction that has halted logging in federally owned ancient forests. His Interior Department is planning to open national forests to private strip mining. What happened between 1988 and 1992? Politics happened...
...lady buying her morning coffee confirmed that with a nod. She turned out to be very helpful--she had been towed several times herself. She told me how to go about retrieving my car and even gave me a lift to the T-stop...
Renovations at Sanders Theatre will focus onmaking the eminent performance hall more performerand audience friendly. Plans include constructinggreen rooms, dressing rooms and a lift for theSteinway D concert grand piano. Currently, Sandersmust hire a moving company whenever a performerneeds a piano on stage. Updated lighting and soundsystems as well as air conditioning will beinstalled...