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Phillips, who gained national recognition for his 1967 prediction that a wave of Republican victories sweep the country, said the election signals a growing disillusionment with both political parties--not a "Republican revolution," as current Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has claimed.
While the prediction is coming true, it isn't clear that global warming is the cause. There has been a half-degree rise in average world temperatures over the past century or so, but that could be part of some sort of natural cycle, unrelated to human activity. Moreover, the...
CREATING VIRTUAL WASHINGTON Perot has already urged national town meetings, a group in Pennsylvania is talking about voters advising Washington via an electronic Congress, and nostalgia is growing for a high-tech update of Athenian democracy or of Norman Rockwellian townspeople gathered around a cast-iron stove in rural Vermont...
But Carnesale's last prediction jars with that of Proctor, who said yesterday that the new committee is "not necessarily intended to cut the size of the central administration."
"The massive earthquake in Kobe is a reminder we cannot put all our confidence in governments or in scientific prediction."