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Many in the world of sport find that a depressing prospect. Mary Carillo, a CBS tennis analyst, points out that both the Seles and Kerrigan incidents "happened on the site, at the workplace. That kind of threat creates a haunting and scary feeling for any athlete. One of the best parts about those sports is watching great athletes up close, watching them grunt and sweat. That may be taken away...
...President is heir. Under current law, there is nothing Clinton or anyone else could do to stop it. Annas is worried that samples from routine blood tests on ordinary citizens could be screened and that the genetic information might eventually find its way into vast DNA data banks, a prospect James Watson, the co-discoverer of the molecule's structure, has called "repulsive." To prevent misuse of this information, Annas has proposed a series of guidelines that would, among other things, prevent genetic data collected for one purpose from being used for another. But given how ineffective U.S. computer-privacy...
...when he runs for a second term. "The problem for Bill Clinton is, we're going to have a good 1994 and a good 1995," Jones said. "But look out, Bill, for 1996." However, for Americans who have endured three years of the leanest economic recovery on record, the prospect of two reasonably fat years looks just fine, thank...
...Antall, who was considered a moderate, is not alone. Many Hungarians want to protect their expatriate brothers currently enduring discrimination in Serbia, Romania and Ukraine. "If our reaching out to the West doesn't produce results in three or four years with something like NATO membership -- or its clear prospect -- the nationalists will roar back," says Istvan Gyarmati, Hungary's Director of Security Policy. "They'll just say we moderates tried a policy that would tie us to the West and that it failed and that it's time to try something else." Then what? "Then it's entirely possible...
...achieve that aim, the presidential task force envisions significant increases in child-care support and job training -- and beyond that, the prospect that if the market doesn't provide enough work, government will be obliged to create jobs or to subsidize employers to take on the new hires. All of which means that reforming the system could cost more than not reforming it, at least in the short term...