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...have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate. "It's like a house is burning down, and all you have to put it out with is a teaspoon of water." What could have a drenching effect on the term-limits movement, however, is the Supreme Court. Officeholders will keenly be following the oral arguments this week in the case of U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Bryant v. Hill, which will be the first tests of the constitutionality...
...political arena, as at GM, Perot is coming under heavy fire for relying on exhortation without offering specific programs. But Perot thinks a leader's job is to set goals and drive his followers to reach them by any means necessary. His formula at EDS was "a teaspoon of planning, an ocean of execution." Subordinates setting out to reorganize a customer's data- processing procedures were told only to "do what makes sense." That approach succeeded spectacularly at EDS, where goals could be simple and Perot could rely on well-understood rewards and punishments. It is questionable whether it would...
...believe moderate drinking may have a protective effect against heart disease, the report finds that the risks of alcohol far outweigh any benefits. Women who are pregnant or trying to conceive should avoid alcohol. The panel also urged the public to limit salt consumption to 6 g -- about a teaspoon -- or less...
...unimaginably fast. Its "day" is only one two-thousandth of a second long, and while the earth's equator rotates at about 1,000 m.p.h., the pulsar's is moving at more than 200 million m.p.h. By rights, the pulsar should fly apart, but it is so dense -- a teaspoon of it would weigh 300,000 tons on earth -- that its gravity holds it together. Says Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a member of the discovery team: "We can't help being astounded by what we are seeing...
...small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head, 19, the new Miss Snake Charmer, gets into the demonstration pit with Bill Ransberger, the snake handler, and picks...