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...estate-tax repeal is looking more and more like the perfect bone for Bush to throw the Democrats when the negotiating gets started in earnest. Despite Denny Hastert's impressive p.r. sell of the cut last year - he had the bill delivered to the White House on a tractor, playing up the family-farmer angle - it remains the most obviously rich-skewed of Bush's cuts. Turning over that paper $236 billion to the Democrats for some lower-income cuts - or pulling it from the plan altogether - could speed up the negotiations significantly...
...content to be a passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
...presses currently in use as "remarkably crude." They are light-years away from that description. Today's presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size of a tractor trailer and demand "the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek." Many conventional compacting powder presses are certainly much smaller than a tractor trailer, and often they can be handled by just one skilled production worker. PETER K. JOHNSON, MANAGING EDITOR International Journal...
...nothing especially new about it. Powder presses have been around for 70 years, stamping out everything from truck-motor parts to medical equipment. Remarkably common though they are, these machines are remarkably crude. Most powder presses are great, loud, chugging things, about the size and shape of a tractor trailer and demanding the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek. Retooling the presses to switch from making one component to another can take days. And any parts the machines do produce are coarse things at best, requiring up to a dozen refinements and improvements...
...Barnum's Kaleidoscape is Ringling Bros.' first show to play under a tent in since 1956. Since then the big-time circus has been almost exclusively a creature of large multipurpose arenas, showing up at odd moments between ice hockey and tractor pulls. But the circus belongs in a tent, under the big top; better still, this one takes place in a single ring, which as far as I am concerned is the way the circus was meant to be seen. Sure, there is something to be said for the pure spectacle of the three-ring circus, but I always...