Word: powerfully
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...lawmakers have hopped on board (barring last-minute bickering), not everyone is happy. "This is horrible legislation," says bank analyst Lawrence Cohn at Ryan, Beck & Co. "It creates a huge potential obligation for U.S. taxpayers." How's that? Cohn says the new bill will encourage concentration of financial power in a few hands, any one of which could topple the system if it failed--forcing a government bailout. He has strong support from the likes of consumer activist Ralph Nader...
...have been misappropriated in Web addresses. In April a federal court took wwwpainewebber.com (missing a period to distinguish it from the investment company's site) away from a porn website. And the House of Representatives last week passed the Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act, a bill that would give broad power to trademark holders to go after cybersquatters...
...social handshake has its anthropological origins in the idea of primitive man showing he was not carrying a weapon, the political handshake springs from long ago when a king's touch might do magic and when the power of such connection seemed infinitely more pertinent than the potential germs. To touch was to partake somehow--maybe even through the germs--of the king's magic. Surely voters will imagine that when they shake hands with Donald Trump, gold will rub off. (Of course, bad magic may also be communicated. Maybe the handshake with Herbert Hoover many years ago explains...
...people here in Silicon Valley think Jobs is an arrogant ass. I don't really care. Every time I fire up my beautiful new Power Mac G4 computer, I thank God and Steve for saving me from the awful alternative. DARRELL GORR San Jose, Calif...
Snyder was not so sure. "I'm an optimist. Why would evolution have been parsimonious in depriving the human brain of the power of self-healing? I was a pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally...