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...floor" if the President tries to tax employer-provided health-care benefits, and Moynihan agrees: "The poor trade unions fought hard to win wage raises via health-benefit increases. It'll be hard to do something that could cause them to lose those gains when they've had to swallow a bunch of other givebacks in recent years...
...sneak the first assumption post the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...
...Chernobyl clones, the potential to flood Poland and Germany with hundreds of thousands of refugees -- and to become a big market and political partner if things work out right. But with recession gripping the West, generosity comes hard, especially when donors fear that Russia's economic chaos will simply swallow up limitless funds...
...fooling at least its piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the deep -- at least for a while...
...Golan to Israel? The United Nations charter prohibits the occupation of the land of other people. There is no moral, legal or political justification for the Arabs to offer their land to Israel simply to obtain Israel's agreement for peace. Otherwise, any state may feel it can swallow its neighbor...