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Tsongas even jokes about his bout with cancer in the 1970s, when he retired from the U.S. Senate to undergo treatment...
...about the distasteful task of massacring the Innocents. He doesn't want to, because he is at heart a liberal. But still, he predicts, if that Child is allowed to get away, "Reason will be replaced by Revelation. Instead of Rational Law, objective truths perceptible to any who will undergo the necessary intellectual discipline, Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions . . . Whole cosmogonies will be created out of some forgotten personal resentment, complete epics written in private languages, the daubs of schoolchildren ranked above the greatest masterpieces. Idealism will be replaced by Materialism. Life after death will...
...theme: parents who do not attend parent-teacher meetings are fined $50 for each one missed, and students who drop out of school can have their drivers' license suspended (1,000 have been since 1989). Furthermore, the Governor has implemented a welfare-reform plan, requiring able-bodied recipients to undergo training or schooling, and imposing penalties if they do not. So far, the results are inconclusive, but critics say the plan has been sabotaged by the state's sluggish welfare bureaucracy...
...their economies makes a broader strategic partnership between Washington and Tokyo essential, especially since Japan's neighbors include a Russia that is in deepening crisis, a North Korea that has the most militaristic and totalitarian regime on earth and a China that could, in the next few years, undergo a power struggle of epic proportions...
...state. Each type of atom responds most readily to a particular frequency. For the cesium-133 atoms in most atomic clocks, the frequency is 9,192,631,770 vibrations per second. When a microwave beam inside the clock is set to that frequency, the maximum number of atoms will undergo the energy switch, signaling the clock's internal computer that the device is correctly tuned. The vibrating microwaves keep time; the atoms just keep them on track...