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...world has taken some steps to curtail the spread of nukes. Under a treaty signed three years ago, the U.S. and Russia agreed to shrink their stockpiles; for the U.S., that has meant trimming the number of deployed warheads from the current 5,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012. At the same time, the Bush Administration has decided, unilaterally, to cut the total nuclear arsenal from about 10,000 warheads to 6,000 over the same period. In the armed forces, nuclear expertise is no longer a path to the top. "No one's promoting their...
...cynic is Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda), a lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist determined to discover if Agnes is mad or a murderer, a harlot or a modern saint. The outsider is the moviegoer, who can have a pretty grand time monitoring a tug of wills between the mother superior and the shrink, while contemplating the place of faith in a world that has given up on miracles...
...Nowadays Wynn hopes to shrink gambling to less than 45% of the overall take at his hotels; he says he would remove it from his tranquil new oasis entirely if he could. "I do need the cash flow from the casino to justify the things I do," says Wynn. "I wouldn't want to dumb down my hotel-not at this point in my life. How many guys get to try to build the best hotel in the world...
...tell you one that's as obvious as the nose on your face: Don't let recidivists out! I don't care what any shrink will tell you. I've been in the trenches for ten years. Sex offenders do not get rehabbed. I think that it's always been that way. I hate to sound jaded - I don't believe that every criminal should go to jail, I think people with drug problems, alcohol problems, burglaries, thefts, car-jackings, anything that's not a violent crime, should be tried to be treated through rehab. I really...
...eight blue and yellow Navy oars doing everything they could to inch closer to the Crimson—punished the Midshipmen with a furious sprint in the last strokes to the finish line. Navy’s desperate attempt to bring up the rating in the final 500 and shrink the open-water gap between the two boats did nothing to lessen the impact of those 2,000 meters...