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...foreign challenges. "I think we know that small interventions won't work," says Brookings economist Henry Aaron, "and therefore we have to decide whether this is a problem like going to the moon or winning World War II or Operation Desert Storm, where we say we're going to pour in the resources we think are necessary to do the job." In Aaron's pessimistic view, there is currently "no evidence of that kind of commitment in the nation...
...other evidence that led the jury to acquit. "The trial was much more than 81 seconds of tape," says Houston burglary sergeant Doug Elder. "The media and politicians took the tape and indicted, tried and convicted those officers before they went to court." Now, he says, "politicians are helping pour flames on the problem...
...know the excuse for the absence of government. The reason why nothing seems to come out no matter how much we pour in is widely known to be the federal debt. Thirty percent of our tax dollars go to pay off not the debt itself but the interest on the debt. This amounts to $200 billion a year, hardly any of which will ever fill an orphan's tummy or dry a poor widow's tear. Instead, most of it flows directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government...
...expert in person, he merely mails a slip of paper with his name written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank accounts rather dramatically...
UNESCO hopes to recruit several thousand demobilized soldiers to help guard the monuments and begin clearing out the water system. As more tourists pour in and new facilities are built, the pressure on the provincial authorities to provide funds for the monuments will increase. But Narasimhaiah of the Indian archaeology team has some advice for scientists interested in restoration: "You have to love your monument. It should be like the relationship between a doctor and a patient. If a doctor doesn't have faith in his patient, he will never cure him." And if nothing else, the monuments of Angkor...