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This looks like Clinton's No. 2 choice. A 5% sales tax on energy would raise $18 billion a year and cost the average family about $100 a year in higher gasoline and electric bills. But oil and gas producers object that the levy would favor coal companies because their fuel is cheaper and they would therefore pay fewer taxes. Environmentalists complain that a sales tax would fail to sock it to coal and thus do little to help stop global warming. "It misses a tremendous opportunity to do good for the environment at the same time you're meeting...
...grumblers object that the Vance plan gives the Serbs too much territory. They make up only 31% of the Bosnian population and would end up with 42% of the territory. But that overlooks the fact that the Serbs are the most rural people in Bosnia. They owned or occupied about 60% of the country before the war (up to 70% now). Vance would have them give up about a third of their holdings -- which is the reason the Serbs are so reluctant to sign...
Hillary Rodham Clinton, a successful attorney and children's rights activist, might be more palatable to Wellesley students. But it's important to remember that Clinton is only the object of national attention because her husband ran for president--and won. The First Lady shouldn't be a model for American women. Catapulted into fame and glory simply because of your marriage? That smacks of royalty. It's like marrying into superpower; wouldn't it be best to earn it all on your...
Women's roles in contemporary society are also challenged in Doris Salcedo's "Untitled, 1992," a baby cribencased in wire. The work suggests "that motherhood can become obsessive and claustrophobic." The piece also forces the viewer to look at a commonplace object in an entirely...
...million to $15 million annually to operate it. Adding research on defense technologies and possible space-based sensors would run the annual costs to "a few tens of millions." And "a few hundred million dollars could develop and test the robotic spacecraft missions" needed to scout any threatening object. An effective way of reducing later costs, says Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, would be to put aside a handful of the missiles now being dismantled by the U.S. and Russia and modify them for the intercept program. "It's not huge bucks," he says...