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Fifteen dollars is a lot to pay for a wooden comb which isn't significantly different from a drugstore plastic one. Crayons or pencil leads stuck in inch-thick twigs (complete with bark) are unwieldy and rough to the touch, and contribute (as do the combs) to deforestation through the unnecessary and wasteful use of wood. Besides, at $3.50 a crayon, it would take a month's wages to amass a 64-color...
...like soccer balls. Captured for the first time in 1991 in computer-generated "snapshots" (seen here with cesium-based handles -- the rabbit ears on top), these namesakes of Buckminster Fuller might someday be fashioned into tiny ball bearings, featherweight batteries or even superconducting wires that are just one molecule thick...
...that the decisive leadership he showed in Desert Storm has not been duplicated in his budgetary and domestic policy efforts. When confronted with this charge, the President suddenly begins pointing around the empty room at imaginary members of his war staff and giving orders as he did in the thick of the gulf crisis: " 'Colin, you do this. Dick, you're responsible for this. Have Colin, the Chairman, and General Schwarzkopf do this. Brent, here is what I want to do' -- something happens. And in dealing with the domestic economy, you're dealing with every subcommittee chairman and somebody that...
...pumps and fans were installed for air circulation. If need be, the entire underground complex could be sealed. The entrance to the facility, according to Fowler, could be closed off with a so-called guillotine gate; behind it is a solid steel door that Fowler estimates is 5 ft. thick, 10 ft. high and nearly 20 ft. across. It rests on wheels and can be opened and closed electronically. Says former FEMA head Becton: "The entrance is such that if they were to pop a nuke, it would withstand whatever they popped...
...opposition are the "accommodationists," who believe that the "wall of separation" between church and state has grown too thick and costs too much. By isolating God from public life, they argue, the courts have replaced freedom of religion with freedom from religion. A nation's identity is informed by morality, and morality by faith. How can people freely debate issues like nuclear arms or the death penalty, how can children be educated, without any reference to spiritual heritage? As Justice Antonin Scalia observed in 1987, "Political activism by the religiously motivated is part of our heritage." The accommodationists deny that...