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...success for the ozone layer, which will continue to deteriorate as CFCs manufactured during years of international temporizing wander upward to the stratosphere like leisurely assassins. Bush ridiculed this threat during the '92 campaign, calling Gore "Ozone Man," but in fact the loss of the world's upper atmospheric shield is one environmental threat that has people genuinely scared...
...hard for juries to understand why women like Burt do not turn to the courts for orders of protection. But these are a makeshift shield at best, often violated and hard to enforce. Olympic skier Patricia Kastle had a restraining order when her former husband shot her. Lisa Bianco in Indiana remained terrified of her husband even after he was sent to jail for eight years. When prison officials granted Alan Matheney an eight-hour pass in March 1989, he drove directly to Bianco's home, broke in and beat her to death with the butt of a shotgun. Last...
Insurers are also suffocating. New York State's vast Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan, which insures 1.4 million mostly poor and elderly patients, temporarily averted insolvency this month thanks to a state-financed bailout plan. Even with a one-time $100 million infusion, though, customers will face average rate increases of 20%. As a result, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers may be forced to join the ranks of the uninsured...
...secret," Delventhal said jokingly. "Our engineering department has designed a plastic shield that would sit behind the goal and throw Gallant's image on to the ice to try and trick Harvard...
Thus begins the education of Bill Clinton -- and Clinton's first moves toward educating his nation. Along the way Clinton has displayed several facets of his personality: a leader feared by his aides, who attempt to shield him from some uncomfortable truths; an insightful student of economics nevertheless capable of holding to notions most economists view as errant nonsense; a man determined to set the country on a difficult path, who views every setback as an opportunity...