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...that simple." Yet little about Perot himself matches that terse description. As his bizarre charges of Republican dirty tricks detonated across the political landscape last week, the dominant facet of Perot's makeup became increasingly clear: he is an incurable conspiracy monger who espies plotters in every thicket and easily persuades himself that some of his wildest suspicions are true...
Contemplate for a moment a tangle of seaweed tossed up on the shore. This is what a neuron looks like, surrounded by a thicket of tiny tendrils that serve as communications channels. Now multiply that neuron 100 billion times. Crammed into the skull of every human individual are as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way. Each one of these receives input from about 10,000 other neurons in the brain and sends messages to a thousand more. The combinatorial possibilities are staggering. The cerebral cortex alone boasts 1 million billion connections, a number so large, marvels...
...half-life of media memory -- is his convoluted account of dealings with his Arkansas draft board back in 1969. Clinton has bumped into questions about avoiding induction into the military during the Vietnam War since his early days in Arkansas politics, and his responses amount to a tortuous thicket of incomplete and not entirely compatible explanations...
...through November. One petition- drive worker in New York City who attended an orientation meeting received four follow-up phone calls confirming that she would actually hit the streets with a clipboard. Other statewide groups have been equally effective in marshaling support and finding their way through the legal thicket. Perot's California organization, which collected more than 1 million signatures to place him on the ballot, has drawn up a 26-page strategy manual on how to deploy volunteers and sent a copy to the main office urging its adoption nationwide. Some Perot partisans contend that paid political consultants...
While the A.M.A.'s statement supports that view, many doctors are reluctant to wade into the domestic thicket. A survey of physicians' attitudes about domestic violence in the current Journal of the American Medical Association reveals their concerns about the ever expanding roles they are expected to assume in modern society and the enormous demands these make on their time. In recent years they have been asked to take a larger role in monitoring child abuse, explaining to very ill patients that they have the right to refuse treatment and screening for depression. "They feel they are being asked...