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...work - this time. But what of the next comparatively mild spike in oil prices, and the next, and the next? The market will require ever-larger interventions to respond, and even begin discounting them the way they will sometimes discount Greenspan's moves. And the Fed chairman is a staunch political independent, while the energy secretary is always a political dependent. The SRP, reserved for national emergencies, stands to become a political plaything of the administration, used to tweak prices and elect vice presidents, and soon all 570 million barrels will be in play. Want to heat voters' homes this...
...Thorpe, a mild fellow for an assassin, said quietly, as if in explanation, "When you race in front of Australians, you don't let them down." What a kid, what a race. What a show this was in Sydney. The land Down Under - big, friendly, sweating, lovable Australia - on top of the world...
...White's sonorous mythologizing was overdone, the making of the president 2000 seems ridiculously underdone - the election campaign at times little more than a curiosity, an irritation yammering toward a foregone conclusion. Even the summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness...
...Ralf Schumann. A mild-tempered and obviously sharp-eyed man of 38, he was born in the former East Germany, where he took up pistol shooting at age 15. The pistol has since become an extension of his right arm, and rapid-fire shooting at 25 m his life. He fires 20,000 shots a year--all in training for a competition that lasts no longer than...
SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...