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...though the prevailing opinion is that support will fall if casualties soar, the calculation may be more complicated. To begin with, the war in the gulf is not a unilateral guerrilla war to suppress a national liberation movement; it is a struggle to evict an invading army from a neighboring country it is occupying in defiance of the U.N. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 79% expected U.S. casualties in a land war to be in the thousands or tens of thousands. Despite such catastrophic losses, 58% said they believe the war would...
George Bush faces a decision that will determine how many more Americans will die: whether to start the ground war now or later. The choice hinges largely on how well the air assaults are going. -- Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. support for the war will fall if casualties soar, but the equation may be more complicated. -- By defying the allied onslaught, Saddam Hussein is gambling on winning the soul of the Arab masses...
...there is also bad news about breast cancer. The number of cases continues to soar. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. incidence increased 32% between 1982 and 1987. Only lung cancer is rising faster. Cancer is the leading cause of death for women 35 to 50, and breast cancer is the most common malignancy in this age group. All in all, an American woman has a 1-in-10 chance of developing breast cancer over the course of her lifetime, and that risk keeps on rising...
...current political climate, it was nothing to brag about. The compromise will slow but not arrest the tide of red ink that is washing over the nation. Even after the accord goes into effect, the deficit for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1 is expected to soar to $254 billion, not counting the estimated $1 billion a month the government is spending on its military forces in the Persian Gulf. Every citizen's share of the $3 trillion national debt will rise by $2,600 over the next 12 months. In the words of an Arab saying...
...musky outskirts of puberty." Boatner's boys can "smuggle farts like anarchist bombs into the highest and most sacred scenes of camp life," wet the bed one minute and display extraordinary bravery the next, be ruled by their burgeoning sexuality to the point of visiting the barn animals but soar to great spirituality when one of the last members of the camp's old Indian tribe imparts his wisdom...