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Perhaps the argument gaining the most attention, though, is the oldest and simplest: Why should we pay money to solve other people's problems, especially when we have so many problems of our own? Although one could argue against this on the basis of a moral duty to help other human beings in need of aid, there are more prgamatic arguments...
...crystallizing issues to advocate causes from civil rights to environmental protection. An architect of Harry S Truman's 1948 election victory, he later counseled winding down the Vietnam War as Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary. Says TIME's Hugh Sidey: "He had a genius for reducing things to their simplest terms but fell to a tragic and false sense of invulnerability." Clifford's chairmanship of a bank embroiled in international scandal led to 1992 criminal charges that were dropped because of his age and frailty...
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective. Six years ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics surprised doctors everywhere by urging that all healthy infants be placed on their sides or backs when they sleep. The physicians' group was responding to reports from Europe that showed that babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to succumb to sudden-infant-death syndrome, also known as crib death, than those who sleep on their stomachs...
...simplest pleasures are often the ones that beguile a child, and who was more beguiling than Shari Lewis, a woman with a demure sock named Lamb Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this...
...couldn't even dream of doing before. The seduction of being online--and this applies to everyone, from novice surfers on AOL to the hardiest hackers on the Web--is that it really does put an awful lot of power in your hands. You can start with the simplest of questions--How do I buy a new sport- utility vehicle?--and step away from your PC in an hour with more information than you might have gathered in a month without a modem. And that information may be better than anything you've ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets...