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Additionally, the Goldsmith Book Award went to Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, co-authors of "Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate...
College administrators last year said they anticipated large blocking groups and decided to shrink their maximum size from 20 to 16 in hopes of increasing diversity in the houses...
...allowed plants to "rerack" their rods in ever more tightly packed pools. Sandwiched between the rods is a neutron-absorbing material called Boraflex that helps keep them from "going critical." After fuel pools across the country were filled in this way, the industry discovered that radiation causes Boraflex to shrink and crack. The NRC is studying the problem, but at times its officials haven't bothered to analyze a pool's cooling capacity before granting a reracking amendment. "It didn't receive the attention that more obvious safety concerns got," says Inspector General Norton...
...assess what he would do as President, one wonders whether to read his lips or his footprints. Would he use government, as he did in Tennessee, to improve the nation's infrastructure and education and to attract better jobs? He says not. He says he would shrink the Federal Government and empower Governors--and ministers and parents--to do what he and the people of his state...
...Dionne doesn't propose any way to shrink the deficit; like the politicians he criticizes, he is unwilling to admit that a more Progressive society will not be achieved without some sacrifices. Indeed, Dionne barely even mentions the need for cuts in defense spending or tax increases on the wealthy; that would sound too much like the old, liberal solutions Dionne wants to avoid. They Only Look Dead makes one feel good about the idea of government; but it is paying for government that drives people into the arms of the Republican Party. A fairer society can't be fudged...