Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking before 275 people at the Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, 10 candidates in the 8th Congressional District race held a panel discussion about the social issues dear to Democratic hearts...
...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...
...ROAD: Social Security was the official topic, but the Washington reporters who schlepped across the West with President Clinton this weekend had something else on their mind: Will the President testify? Of course, Bill wasn't going to say -- but as a reporter, it's the question you've gotta ask, and keep asking...
This summer my good friend and fellow biological anthropologist jetted off to Uganda to study the foraging patterns and social structure of an obscure species of monkey. Her research, conducted in the marshy, bug-infested, tropical jungles of East Africa, is designed to generate data for her senior thesis. When I left Harvard at the end of the school year, she was excitedly packing and talked animatedly about the chance to observe--up close and in person--how these primates fed, traveled and organized themselves. Many people asked if I was going to some place as exotic. Not exactly...
Interestingly enough, I, like my friend in East Africa, have been able to observe the foraging patterns and social structures of a particularly fascinating primate species: humans. Politicians are interesting, too, but I think I'll save that for another postcard. And unlike my friend in East Africa, I've been able to do most of my fieldwork over a steaming mug of latte...