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...hold it up to my toothbrush to see." Longer than a toothbrush? "Yea." Bushbacher does not view his special feature as a personal accomplishment. He says humbly, "If I worked at it, if through hard work it got bigger--using The Pump everyday--then I'd be 'the Man.' But it's natural--just luck...
Clinton's grasp of Realeconomik includes the tenet that short-term political gains are never worth long-term economic risks. Even though this year he had plenty of incentives to pump up his role in Asia and Russia, he has remained mum. In particular, that meant resisting the temptation to "talk up" the dollar or the stock market or bash the Fed for interest-rate moves. And Clinton has, in typical style, been an aggressive autodidact. Aides recall the time last fall when, nursing an aching back, Clinton spent an afternoon stretched out on a White House couch with...
When Representative Charlie Norwood, a Georgia Republican, introduced a bill last year that would have opened the door to HMO malpractice suits, the American Association of Health Plans quickly parried with a study by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick predicting that the resulting torrent of suits would pump up premiums as much as 8.6%--a claim that lost some currency when, in a similar study, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that costs would rise only 1.2%, a mere $7 per covered employee per year. House Republicans, led by Dennis Hastert of Illinois, now Speaker, opposed the plan largely...
...help with it, and it can be on the same level as the others." Jake may have a hard time topping Tucker Carter, another third-grader, who has already made his presentation. Tucker whipped up a fully functioning battery-operated alarm clock that uses a windshield pump to squirt cold water at the sleeper. The kids whooped at this bit of ingenuity, but even they were suspicious. Either Tucker is a prodigiously gifted engineer, or his dad built the clock for him. Sighed David Nihill, the school's principal: "It looks like Alexander Graham Bell made it himself...
...saving the lives of heart-attack victims that a whole new problem has surfaced: many of the survivors are left with severely damaged hearts. That has contributed to an increase in cases of congestive heart failure, an often debilitating condition in which the muscle is too weak to pump enough blood to the rest of the body and eventually exhausts itself. This ailment is growing more common not only because of doctors' success in saving heart-attack patients but also because of other factors, including an aging population. What it all adds up to is that 4.8 million Americans...