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...Maria Cantwell's 1,953-vote lead over Republican incumbent Senator Slade Gorton survives a recount that begins in Washington this week, and if George W. Bush wins the presidency, the Senate will again be split--this time 50-50. And politics in the world's greatest deliberative body may not be any prettier than it was 119 years...
Daschle is proposing far more bipartisanship than Lott will ever swallow. The Democratic leader will begin his summit with Lott by demanding that committee membership be split evenly--if that turns out to be the case in the full Senate--and that Democratic vice chairmen serve alongside Republican chairmen. Lott has already ruled that out, and even Democratic Senators say privately they wouldn't be charitable if the tables were turned. The best Daschle will probably get is a one-vote Republican majority on committees instead of the current two, and more influence over legislation that gets to the floor...
...many ways, Wayne was a typical sedentary kid. He liked candy, watched too much TV and played too much Nintendo. But his parents, who split when he was young, had infrequent contact. A few schoolmates had been teasing him about his weight. His grades were dropping. His self-esteem was so low he would refuse to take off his shirt in blistering heat for fear of "repelling" family members. And since the mocking increased when he exerted himself--biking in the neighborhood, say, or trying to climb a rope in PE--he was spending most of his free time indoors...
...more about less and less." And as the drive to subdivide the natural world into smaller and smaller bits brought the development of the kind of tools needed for this enterprise (microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, dividing engines and all the other instrumentation required for measuring the new data), disciplines split into subdisciplines and sub-subdisciplines. As a result, isolated in their intellectual silos, scientists and their technological sidekicks literally "reduced" human knowledge to myriad, mutually incomprehensible pinpoints of niche expertise. No matter how esoteric a matter might be today, somebody, somewhere has spent years getting a Ph.D...
...Cross-country travelers could wirelessly update their home pages on the road with pictures from their trip. Guests at a family reunion or wedding could post images online just minutes after snapping them, so everyone who couldn't attend could see the action as it unfolded. Relocating couples could split their house- or apartment-hunting chores and keep each other up to date on their efforts: find something you like, snap a few pictures and let your spouse log on at the office or at home to see what you've discovered...