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Michael Dukakis failed to pin a label on Bush last year in his run for the White House, but Bush has managed to pin one on himself now. He is truly the "Wimp President...
...live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin," wrote Chesterton. Science makes a more severe judgment. It calls living in the present psychotic. Not happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care living in the present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within...
...teeth when he looked out his White House window and saw the Viet Nam protesters desecrate flags. But he was a prisoner of jingoism gone sour. Richard Nixon used the Stars and Stripes as a weapon against the marchers, ordering extraordinary displays of flags, pointedly wearing a flag lapel pin...
...presidential election, Lee Atwater has displayed a talent for smearing opponents and then either apologizing or suffering memory lapses about his role. Months after the Willie Horton issue had polluted Campaign '88, Atwater told reporters he wished he had never heard of the black rapist he helped pin on Michael Dukakis...
Controlling the daily cycles is a cluster of 10,000 nerve cells -- altogether about the size of the head of a pin -- that are located in the hypothalamus, a segment of the brain. Some biological timepieces appear to take their cue from temperature or barometric pressure, but many are synchronized with the cycle of light and darkness caused by the rising and setting of the sun. Experiments conducted in caves, like the one in New Mexico, and others in special laboratories purposely remove all such cues. In Follini's module the temperature was a constant 69 degreesF, and the only...