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Many liberals cry that limiting Social Security to those who need it will stigmatize poor recipients. But why should it? The elderly can never be considered "welfare free-loaders." They aren't expected to work for a living...
...build a profitable recycling plan, we need to jump-start the market. On the supply side, Harvard Student Agencies, the Office of Information Technology and the Coop should begin offering recycled paper for sale. On the demand side, University offices and students should make a concerted effort...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate. You want a child's first experience in learning to be satisfying." He thinks kindergartens should de-emphasize early exposure to the ABCs and concentrate on what he calls an "emotional competence curriculum," meaning one that teaches children such social skills as how to share and how to deal with...
...eleven months that George Bush has required before he would come face-to-face with Mikhail Gorbachev is more time than it took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult, dangerous and exhilarating challenges that confront them...
Even the strategy document issued by William Bennett, the director of national drug policy, concedes that interdiction is mainly a symbolic effort. Its lack of results underscores the need to intercept cocaine in other places. Specifically, the document recommends a stronger effort to cut cocaine off at both ends of the pipeline: the source of the abundant supply as well as the seemingly insatiable demand...