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Furthermore, from a public policy standpoint, encompassing both international and domestic concerns, little separates the major Democratic candidates. This is especially true with respect to health care reform and Iraq. The few stated differences that do exist are rendered inconsequential by the question of whether or not the proposed policies are even politically feasible. Any notion of meaningful policy differences between the major candidates residing in voters’ minds are attributable to their prejudices against one or another candidate and politicians’ skills in making small or nonexistent distinctions appear important...
...Near-death experiences provoke so much interest because we desperately want to know what is on the other side. From a philosophical and theological standpoint, I would like to suggest that NDEs involve an overwhelming arousal of the imagination, memory and emotions that heightens our capacity to encounter our deep, archetypal humanity. NDEs may very well be a personal encounter with our spirit and even the spirits of our loved ones. NDEs suggest that our spirit is a mysterious force that sustains us through crises and can bedazzle us with experiences we find difficult to explain. Glen Morrison, Lecturer...
...advisors plan their vetoes. Furthermore, says James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the number in dispute is actually closer to $5 billion, since Bush's budget request cuts over $16 billion from current domestic programs. "Clearly, from a fiscal standpoint, this is all a sideshow," says Horney. "At the end of the day, we're talking about very modest amounts of money here...
...isolated, short-lived cases of exploitation at the fringe of the city's economy," writes Bernhardt in the report. "Instead, the systematic violation of our country's core employment and labor laws ... is threatening to become a way of doing business for unscrupulous employers. And yet from the standpoint of public policy, these jobs - and the workers who hold them - are too often off the radar screen...
...Western U.S. The timing couldn't be better, with gasoline prices well over $3 per gal. as the summer driving season begins. But the choice of corn-based ethanol is one that might not play out in the energy future, from either an environmental or an economic standpoint...