Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been 60 years since a Democratic president was re-elected--proof that it's tough to unite a big tent...
Wade said he thinks student activists are very interested in government, citing President Clinton's Americorps program as proof...
...unlike the cold-fusion misadventure of a few years ago? After all, NASA is threatened by major budget cuts. The world's interest in space has made a giant leap forward, and many churches are nervous about attacks on creationism. Scientists have not claimed they have found definitive proof of extraterrestrial life, yet the microscopic evidence is being treated as such by most of the media. Even if scientists did find a bacterial fossil that was truly from Mars, that's still a long way from E.T. phoning home or from aliens blowing up our major cities. Darn. ROBERT BRENNEMAN...
While scientists should continue their search for absolute proof, the preliminary evidence of past life on Mars could hardly have come as a surprise to most people. It would be infinitely more surprising to me if scientists were somehow to prove that extraterrestrial life does not exist. For us on Earth to be alone in the galaxy would indeed be stunning. If other life does exist, what we might find is something else: not in the context of little green men or bug-eyed monsters, but in the perspective of where we are now in our development...
...Camel and the Marlboro Man will be out of our children's reach forever," said Clinton--hopefully. The changes, first previewed last summer, are likely to be tied up in the courts for years. If they take effect, cigarette sales would require a photo I.D. offering proof of age. In magazines read by a significant number of teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds. Sponsorship...