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...passes. "No one has any idea what the policy should be," says Bert Ely, a banking consultant who in 1989 correctly predicted that the savings-and-loan bailout would cost taxpayers about $150 billion. "It's a problem for all the industrialized countries. Computers are allowing the creation of purer and purer financial plutonium, and frankly, the regulatory process cannot keep...
...epidemics, back when they came swaddled in baskets with heartbreaking notes, in the thousands rather than in the tens of thousands. Now they are a shared social nightmare, the blame for which may depend on the political philosophy of the beholder. Conservatives might find it hard to imagine a purer shirking of personal responsibility than the mother who throws her child, at birth, upon the charity of the state; liberals may decry the forces that drive poor, addicted and HIV-positive women into this most wrenching and demeaning admission of failure...
...that elusive, soft-core charisma. Has Conan got it? "He doesn't have the sardonic glibness of Letterman," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president at advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, "which a lot of people like but probably a lot more people find a bit tiring. Conan has a purer kind of humor, and that's being perceived positively...
...Made in America, Rookie of the Year, FatherHood: men who get some remedial humanizing, '90s-style, from kids. In this week's Sleepless in Seattle, an eight-year-old explains some mystery to his dad. "The reason I know this," the child says, "is because I'm younger and purer and therefore more in touch with cosmic forces." This is a joke, but in Hollywood there are no jokes...
...ARGUMENTS FOR building the multibillion-dollar space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...