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...Fine words, but the President had little to offer in the way of action. None of the solutions being proposed in Congress -- raising taxes, raising the retirement age or allowing retirees to gamble a portion of their payroll -- received his stamp of approval. Which means, according to White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, that we won't see a Clinton Social Security plan this year -- if at all. "He may have learned some of the lessons of health care," says Tumulty. "You do things slowly." Hopefully for Clinton, the system will be successfully tweaked by August 19, 2011 -- his 65th birthday...
...British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow also lamented the polarization of science and the humanities. His essay, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, sparked one of the liveliest debates of the postwar era. Today, of course, there are at least 22 cultures, each celebrating its difference, none much interested in looking for common ground...
...Bottom of the class: Lycos, which is barely scratching the surface with coverage of about nine million web pages. Best browser award goes to HotBot, which has managed to catalog a third of the web, or around 100 million pages. But as Lawrence and Giles say, none of the engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer...
...could have majored in animal studies atCornell and tracked myself," says Shanies, whoplans to be a "wildlife or exotic animals"veterinarian. "[But] I wanted a well-roundededucation. I don't think I expected Harvard tohave that little knowledge of the profession,though. There really was none...
Most pre-vets anticipate large veterinaryschool tuition debt, and with the average startingsalary around $29,000 for practicingveterinarians, aspiring pre-vets say they'recertainly not in it for the money. But none of thestudents interviewed say they have secondthoughts...