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...hire chauffeurs to drive them to work, for example, the working stiff of the future will be transported to work in his robocar. None of these advances are without their costs and risks. Drexler's assemblers, for example, could create bounties of goods and services -- or they could unleash artificial pests of unimaginable destructiveness. One nightmare creature from Drexler's book: an omnivorous bacteria-size robot that spreads like blowing pollen, replicates swiftly and reduces the biosphere to dust in a matter of days...
Gregory's plight attracted national attention and even reached the podium of the G.O.P. convention, where conservative Pat Buchanan cited the case in his attack on Hillary Clinton, implying Gregory's lawsuit was an assault on the American family and could unleash a flood of frivolous litigation by willful children against their parents. Finally, after a parade of witnesses attested to his mother's less than perfect parenting, it was Gregory's small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child...
...WOULD DO THE BEST JOB of leading the U.S. out of its economic mess? Would it be President Bush, who advocates tax cuts to unleash what Republicans like to call the magic of the marketplace? Or Bill Clinton, who wants to use the power of Washington to rebuild America's creaky infrastructure and pour resources into job-training programs...
Players contended that the existing plan kept salaries low and curtailed their ability to move freely to higher-paying teams; the owners argued that fewer restrictions would unleash uncontrolled salary escalation. On this last point, both sides might agree; in the National Basketball Association and major-league baseball, free agency is looser. Annual player salaries average $1.1 million and $1.08 million, respectively. In the N.F.L., the average is about $400,000. Probably not for long...
...years abroad as a diplomat, four of them as ambassador under Jimmy Carter, were spent in Yugoslavia, where he earned the nickname "Larry of Macedonia." Soon after becoming Deputy Secretary in the Bush Administration in 1989, he warned that the end of the cold war could unleash ethnic hatreds in Europe, especially in Yugoslavia. He was criticized for having cold war nostalgia, but his fears have been justified. The U.S. mostly kept out of the mounting Yugoslav crisis until Baker visited Belgrade in June 1991, when the country was on the brink of dissolution. Baker and Eagleburger agreed that...