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Henry Adams remarked after the Civil War that anyone wishing to disprove Darwin's theory had only to trace the evolution of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Americans have often cherished a sort of golden-age theory of the presidency. They look back on, say, Harry Truman and John Kennedy as historical giants. In fact, neither man looked all that imposing when he was in the White House. Truman was often vilified as an undistinguished little haberdasher, utterly unfit to succeed a demigod like Franklin Roosevelt. Those underwhelmed by the current presidential candidates might remember that...
...Board opens. At the bell, the Dow is already off 67 points. In the next 30 minutes, 50 million shares are sold. At DLJ two blocks away, glowing green figures on computer consoles trace the market's fall. "We're going underwater!" shouts Trader John Sesko as he pops Tic Tac candies into his dry mouth. "55,000 Pepsis to sell!" barks one trader. "60,000 GM to sell!" yells another. The cries do not stop. "Boston wants to sell 30,000 J.P. Morgan!" Long before lunchtime, a trader shouts, "Hamburger to go! Hamburger to go in six figures...
...good English. His popular essays and book reviews leaven economic analysis with a dry, cutting wit. "Only someone with a sense of humor could survive reading this book," he began a review of George Gilder's The Entrepreneur as Hero in the New Republic. "And no one with any trace of a sense of humor could have written...
Shultz acknowledged it would be difficult to enforce the U.S. embargo, since the origin of oil on world markets is hard to trace. But, he said, "while Iran is conducting the war (with Iraq) and conducting terrorism, we shouldn't be buying things from them to the tune we are.... We feel it's important to lay down our marker...
...matters worse, a host of other gases are now known to add to the greenhouse effect. In 1975, Ramanathan was amazed to discover that Freon, a widely used CFC, was an infrared absorber. "It had a very large impact," he says. "Since then, tracking down the role of other trace gases has become a cottage industry. There are dozens of them, and they are rivaling the effects of increasing CO2." In fact, by the year 2030 the earth will already face the equivalent of a doubling of CO2, thanks to these other rapidly increasing gases, including methane, nitrous oxide...