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Several house residents complained about the problem to Adams Superintendent Bill Wong, and those interviewed said they were happy with the House's prompt response...
...categories, it remains too turbulent and diverse to pin down. This worries both advertisers and organizations such as the American Association of Retired Persons, the powerful Washington lobby group for the elderly. Its membership has dropped from 33 million in 1995 to 32 million today, despite A.A.R.P.'s uncannily prompt mailing of applications to boomers as they reach the half-century mark. "Boomers tend not to be quite the joiners that previous generations might have been," concedes A.A.R.P. spokesman Tom Otwell, who says he expects the vast postwar cohort to start signing up in droves once its members advance farther...
Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
...Lake City's 1.3 million residents. For the Pentagon, there is a sense of urgency about getting rid of these chemical-laden rockets and bombs, which are crammed into 208 earth-covered igloos. For one thing, the Chemical Weapons Convention ratified by the U.S. Senate last April requires their prompt destruction. But above all, most of the weapons are more than 30 years old, and their aluminum containers have begun to corrode. The Army says continuing to stockpile the weapons, which could be vulnerable to anything from explosions to earthquakes, poses much greater health risks than burning the stuff...
...wise to fly such a derelict ship. With two more Americans still set to ride aboard Mir before this cycle of joint flights ends, in May 1998, many on Capitol Hill want to pull the plug on the missions. "The incident," says Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "should prompt further debate over how much we are willing to sacrifice for manned space science." NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin doesn't agree, and for now is standing by the Russians. "Things go wrong in space all the time," he told TIME. "Even with a new space station we're going to have problems...