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Solar energy is also clean and safe. "Cleanandsafe," as solar advocates will tell you. They imply, or may even tell you outright, that nuclear energy is dirty and dangerous. In elementary school, those were fighting words for me, since my father designs nuclear fuel. I viewed any attack on nuclear power as an insult which could be settled only with a fistfight at recess...
...after the EIBL cancelled this weekend's games against Pennsylvania and Navy (both schools saw no reason to make an eight-hour plus road trip when the title had already been claimed outright, Wednesday's contest took on at least symbolic import: it was the last game for Harvard's seven seniors...
...Rand Araskog, whose $7 million in 1990 compensation touched off a maelstrom, agreed to a dramatic overhaul of his pay package. The company replaced outright stock grants with options based on the performance of the company's stock, and Araskog agreed to reduce the size of his annual bonus. Says Hanson: "Shareholders are waking up to the fact that they're owners and not just investors...
...communism -- Marx, Engels and Lenin--and * the current crop of Politburo heavies. Banners bore slogans like GLORY TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION and GLORY TO LABOR. Sic transit glory. This year Moscow has not only dumped the trappings of socialism but hopes to replace them with outright commercialism...
Feminist anger at the chipping away of abortion rights is hardly confined to the Democratic Party. In 1988 the G.O.P. adopted a platform plank stating that "the unborn child has a fundamental right to life" and calling for a human-life amendment that would ban abortion outright. When that position began to alienate women, particularly young suburban voters, the late G.O.P. chairman Lee Atwater urged the party to become a "big tent" able to accommodate both sides on the abortion debate. The party has been slow to follow his advice...