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...budget savings fail to cover the costs ofthe plan, argues Emanuel, universal access wouldhave to be phased in slowly, perhaps over eight toten years. And this, he says, may weaken Clinton'scase. "It doesn't give the people what theythought they were buying," he says...
Then there are the Likud politicians who warn that the recent events are all a plot by the P.L.O. to weaken Israel and set it up for an eventual push into the Mediterranean. In this suspicion, the Likud (Labor's main rival) is merely echoing the nagging doubts of many Israelis who are reluctant to suddenly embrace the P.L.O...
...hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
...whole, the U.S. medical community seems to favor approving the vaccine. Even in healthy children, chicken pox can weaken the body so that it is susceptible to more hazardous bacterial infections. By warding off chicken pox, the vaccine could prevent secondary complications. In addition, 10 years' worth of data in the U.S. suggest that the vaccine could reduce the incidence of shingles. If the CDC decides that these advantages outweigh the possible risks, getting itchy scabs all over the body may no longer be a rite of childhood...
...answer to Powell's concern that an abrupt shift will weaken the military, opponents answer that the military has undergone rapid shifts in the past, such as when it was integrated in 1948, an action which made the rise of Colin L. Powell possible...