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...amount of CFCs in the atmosphere will keep rising until at least the year 2000; after that it may slowly fall, but ozone destruction will continue for several decades in the 21st century. Some optimistic scientists predict that the impact on the heavily populated middle latitudes will be tolerable: at worst, a 6% ozone loss during the summer months, which could cause a 12% increase in ultraviolet radiation. But these forecasts are based on the same computer models that have consistently underestimated the problem. Given the volatile and poorly understood chemistry of the upper atmosphere, no one can predict...
Which is why Clinton's prospects from here cannot be rated all bad. It's true that the lost stimulus package will have a multiplier effect. Democrats like Senator Patrick Leahy predict doom for Clinton's new Russian-aid package because helping unemployed Russians is "self-evidently a tough sell" when "the jobs program for Americans is dead." And the men who control fiscal legislation, Senator Pat Moynihan and Representative Dan Rostenkowski, have signaled their displeasure with the investment tax credit and other Clinton revenue changes. "We invested a lot of time and spent a lot of political capital closing...
Since it is difficult to predict who will develop a tumor, doctors must develop methods by which to identify a growth in its early stages. This identification is extremely important in determining the success of treatment...
...continue to count on a hefty budget for aids research, which along with breast cancer is the only disease to have received more money in the Clinton Administration's National Institutes of Health budget. Critics have been grumbling that AIDS absorbs 10% of the NIH outlay. Now gay activists predict more Congressmen will echo Congressman Robert Dornan, who said of gays last week, "They've lost their edge on the floor. This collapse in their figures will influence the aids debate significantly...
...Hawking's wheelchair. Commenting on Hawking's oft-expressed hope that physicists may soon construct a theory that would unite all the forces of nature into one mathematical equation suitable for a T shirt, a so-called theory of everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect, who would not reach for the candles and tarot cards...