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...10—I know that Baker Professor of Economics Martin Feldstein served on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors, but if I were looking for a really clear, and well-articulated explanation of complex economic matters, I would just tune-in to any cable news station and cross my fingers that the President was giving one of his talks on the “fundamentals” of the American economy...
...America (VOA), Radio Sawa targets a youth audience with trendy American and Arab pop music, attempting to get Washington's take on the news across in snippets that infrequently interrupt the Top 40 barrage. So far, only Arab audiences in Jordan, Dubai, and Kuwait have been able to tune in to Radio Sawa (the signal doesn't reach Cairo or Beirut clearly), but its popularity doesn't necessarily signal an acceptance of an American political message. Because its clear in Cairo that many Arabs are happy to go on consuming American products - from cigarettes to radio stations - while remaining fiercely...
...Bollywood masala--savory cultural stew--restores melodrama to its Greek-tragedy and Italian-opera roots: melody-drama, in which emotions too deep to be spoken must be sung. Imagine Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich dancing around the utility company's lawyers while lip-synching a tune sung by Faith Hill, and you have a hint of the divine delirium that is Bollywood...
...premillennium rapture teachings remind me of '60s guru Timothy Leary's aphorism, "Tune in, turn on, drop out." Only now the opiate of bad theology has replaced drugs. Why work to redeem the culture for Christ if you believe it is only going to get worse and that will hasten the Rapture? Wake up! We do not know when Christ will return, so let's get back to the work at hand. ERIC LAHR Atlanta...
...long process of interviews and counseling - they can check to see which members of the family have inherited the mutations. The chances are roughly 50-50. The program started last October, the idea of senior neurologist Dr. Rafael Blesa, who persuaded several Spanish companies to fund it to the tune j750,000 over three years. "Science was overtaking the treatment of people," says Blesa. "The information genetic research was giving us you cannot just dump on a person, which is why we needed a psychologist on the team to see if people were up to handling it, and a psychiatrist...