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...idea that a high-tech house hold will be a happy one does not appeal to our generation as it once did to our parents' generation. People have found that it is easier for technology to help us escape the earth and tour the moon than to mend the planet's ills. In fact, many now harbor a level of resentment toward progress, which is sometimes viewed as an instrument to undermine the stability of society. We recognize the importance of having strong community goals underlying our technological advances. Indeed, both technology and community are required to move forward without...
...what isn't happening: Bob Dole and Bill Clinton aren't talking about the initiative. It is not as if they are not interested in the subject of affirmative action. Clinton is the only American President ever to have devoted a major public address to affirmative-action policy--his "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995. Dole is the author of federal legislation to abolish affirmative action, explicitly modeled on the California initiative. Polling shows that the initiative has the clear potential to affect voter behavior in other races, including the presidential race. So why the deafening...
Then, with everything in place, the initiative began to recede as a presence in national politics. President Clinton drew no primary opposition, which gave him the strategic opportunity to move as far to the center as possible. Since the "mend it, don't end it" speech, he has said nothing audible about affirmative action, and the Democratic Party financial apparatus has not directed funds to the anti-Prop. 209 forces who, by the way, are quietly furious at the Siberian treatment they are getting...
...million (70% occupied) in 1992. Between 1983 and 1993 the number of registered nurses per 100 patient admissions actually grew, from 80 to 105. Nurses argue that an ever sicker inpatient population requires ever more nursing, because the less gravely ill are never admitted and those on the mend are quickly shown the door. But hospital management sees a large number of high-priced R.N.s as the wrong prescription for survival in a shrinking market: "Models like patient-focused care are the way health care's going to go," says Alta Bates' Ardito. "That's the way it's going...
...Family Ties' Alex Keaton. On the new show Fox's Mike Flaherty is Alex with his own Pottery Barn-furnished apartment. Like Alex he is guided by no redeeming ideals or principles. Instead, Flaherty lives quite happily for the rush of weaving the lies and quarter truths that will mend his boss's innumerable gaffes. When Mayor Randall Winston (played by Barry Bostwick with an unfortunate excess of dimwittedness) slights the gay community, Flaherty jauntily cooks up a scheme to convince the press that the administration is not bigoted by trying to force a straight staff member to pretend...