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When our elected officials take a firm stand and realize the difference between special interest and everyone's interest they will have the strength to take back the halls of the capitol. Only when this happens will the power of the blob shrink...
...reason the White House is pushing for privatization is that the Administration is under enormous pressure to cut Government spending and the federal deficit, which hit $212 billion in 1985 and is expected to top $220 billion this year. The new Gramm-Rudman law dictates that the deficit must shrink to $144 billion in 1987 and disappear altogether by 1991. If those targets are not met, the law calls for automatic across-the-board spending reductions that would be divided equally between defense and non-defense appropriations. To avoid that meat-ax approach, the White House is exploring all possible...
...with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs of missing children, he may even stretch or shrink portions of the face. Ali, for one, was enthralled and reassured by the computer wizardry, and decided on the spot to be resculpted. "I was so excited," she says. "I had seen myself after surgery, and I wasn't scared anymore...
...Laing, the favorite shrink of student rebels in the '60s, retains his romantic opinion of schizophrenics as brave victims who are defying a cruel culture. He suggested that many people are diagnosed as schizophrenic simply because they sleep during the day and stay awake at night. Schizophrenia did not exist until the word was invented, he said. That was too much for Judd | Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association. He called the panel a "travesty." At a later panel, a woman in the audience asked Laing how he would deal with schizophrenics. Laing bobbed and weaved...
...Jupiter, its most volatile material begins forming a coma that reflects light. By the time the most powerful telescopes first catch a glimpse of a comet, the coma already obscures the nucleus beneath. For every revolution a typical comet makes around the sun, its diameter is estimated to shrink about 6 ft. Hence the original size of the comet, the length of its orbit and how close it gets to the sun will determine its life-span. Astronomers estimate that Halley's, which has a relatively short period, will probably last another 225,000 years, a mere wink of astronomical...