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...whole scare may be a fake-out. For every expert with a panicky prediction, there's another with a view that things are under control. Eugene McGrath, chairman of Consolidated Edison in the New York City region, says his company has plenty of juice, and that electricity rates ought to be about the same as last summer--a good thing, given that rates spiked a year ago and stayed there. He's not predicting any power shortages in his area. Why, then, is New York racing to add several small plants by June...
...that is going to involve a new way of doing science and it will require the close collaboration of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists," says Martin. "Harvard ought to be able to carry this forward in the best way possible. These ideas seemed to mesh with [Summers'] thoughts on science...
...home crowd this weekend ought to be enthusiastic. During the Harvard-Notre Dame match there will be a T-shirt giveaway for students, and the women’s soccer team will sell refreshments. Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for adults...
...yesterday’s conservative-led House vote to suspend overdue UN payments. This type of unnecessary confrontation has been largely to blame for the present difficulties; other nations perceive the U.S. as an overbearing giant, not a committed partner. Rather than cut off our UN dues, Congress ought to pay them immediately and in full. This would be a signal of America’s intention to move on and strengthen its position within the UN. A refusal to pay our debts would be seen as a crude attempt at blackmail by a conservative Congress determined on a policy...
...idea of Mother's Day vibrates with a residual impulse to canonize mothers, even though a feminist might say that the habit of doing so ought to vanish, unlamented, when the conditions producing wifely and motherly martyrdom (Hannah Nixon's or Rebekah Johnson's, for example) also recede. It can only be a good thing for women - right? - when they are not called upon to be saints in the old style of forbearance and abnegation, asked to lead a life that would wither a woman like Rebekah Johnson and leave her more embittered than her children, the once-a-year...