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...enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange riptides of this election" that will determine its outcome, says a Gore strategist. At the Bush camp, ever more confident and ever more disdainful of all things Gore, no one is intimidated by the prospect of what one Bush adviser calls "a campaign of Zip codes." Aides say it can't work, arguing that there's no way to narrowcast a message in a national campaign. "If he runs on gun control in New Jersey," says Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, "you can be sure...
...tough spot: they desperately want to boost the politically palatable H-1B visas, which go to educated people classified as temporary workers (though almost half apply to stay before they reach their six-year limit, according to estimates). But the traditional anti-immigrant politicians shrink from the prospect of linking the visas to a provision embracing illegal (and often likely Democratic) immigrants--even though low-skilled workers are also in demand. Then again, rejecting the amnesty proposal could alienate immigrant voters during an election year. Says Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigration group...
...does most of the upfront p.r. in the anti-crypto effort. The FBI doesn't like the prospect of losing some wiretaps. That's just the FBI; it would say the same thing about telepathy if it had it. The true secret mavens of crypto are at the NSA. Spy-code breakers such as Alan Turing invented electronic computers in the first place, so the NSA has a long-held hegemony here. The NSA sets the U.S. government's agenda on crypto, and it will not fairly or openly debate this subject, ever...
Although some contemporary observers consider the prospect of merging with our technology disconcerting, I believe that by the time we get there, most of us will find it very natural to expand in this way our experiences, our minds and our possibilities...
...sued for taking its sweet time paying bills to a number of New York hospitals. (Aetna says it is hopeful they can resolve the issue through negotiations.) There are also restless shareholders, who watched the stock fall nearly 60% in the past year before it recovered recently on the prospect of a good premium for its financial-services and international arms. (Aetna closed last week...