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Adams admits there may be some shady operators but says any relationship is risky and notes that the ins found no more evidence of abuse among mail-order couples than among the general public. "Our clients are bank presidents, educators, professionals of every type," he says. His company sells addresses ($9 apiece for two, $7 apiece for up to 13) and leads 11 tours a year to foreign socials, where men can meet the women they've corresponded with. "I've looked all around here and haven't found anyone," says Jeffrey Porter, 48, who owns a construction company...
Linus' last big wish was to do for medicine what he had done for chemistry. But using vitamins to conquer mental diseases, the common cold and cancer proved more than a tall order even for him. That Linus did not get his final triumph should not surprise us. Failure hovers uncomfortably close to greatness. What matters now is his perfections, not his past imperfections...
Rebuffed by the Army, Goddard spent World War II on sabbatical from rocketry, designing experimental airplane engines for the Navy. When the war ended, he quickly returned to his preferred work. As his first order of business, he hoped to get his hands on a captured V-2. From what he had heard, the missiles sounded disturbingly like his more peaceable Nells. Goddard's trusting exchanges with German scientists had given Berlin at least a glimpse into what he was designing. What's more, by 1945 he had filed more than 200 patents, all of which were available for inspection...
Keynes' basic idea was simple. In order to keep people fully employed, governments have to run deficits when the economy is slowing. That's because the private sector won't invest enough. As their markets become saturated, businesses reduce their investments, setting in motion a dangerous cycle: less investment, fewer jobs, less consumption and even less reason for business to invest. The economy may reach perfect balance, but at a cost of high unemployment and social misery. Better for governments to avoid the pain in the first place by taking up the slack...
...Federal Government did, for the next quarter-century. As the U.S. economy boomed, the government became the nation's economic manager and the President its Manager in Chief. It became accepted wisdom that government could "fine-tune" the economy, pushing the twin accelerators of fiscal and monetary policy in order to avoid slowdowns, and applying the brakes when necessary to avoid overheating. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson cut taxes to expand purchasing power and boost employment. "We are all Keynesians now," Richard Nixon famously proclaimed. Americans still take for granted that Washington has responsibility for steering the economy clear...