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...M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow published an influential book called The Zero-Sum Society. This became a notorious phrase. Thurow's critics, mostly conservative, accused him of suggesting that the American economy could not change or grow. Thurow's point was, rather, that at any given moment society's resourcesTIME
...Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over the centuries. The estimated chance of success: zero...
...involved with the other kids. They had their own father. I didn't spend much time with them, particularly the girls. I spent absolutely zero time with any of them. This was not some type of family unit in any remote...
...specter of race war, only to be followed minutes later by Ronald Reagan's soaring tribute to Bush and America's future. Wednesday, Barbara Bush gently prodded the conservative delegates to broaden their party's sometimes narrow definition of family, while warm-up act Marilyn Quayle championed a zero-tolerance approach to "family values." But it was Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of a top G.O.P. fund raiser, who held the Astrodome rapt with her insistence that AIDS victims "have not earned cruelty and do not deserve meanness." Coming after several days of antigay rhetoric, Fisher gave what many...
...drives around for 40 minutes, carefully obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this gun and sure as hell don't want to disappoint the gang. Absolute ground zero in the mind of a gang banger. "I'm thinking it through, and finally it comes to decision time." Jimmy wheels the Honda toward a group of faceless teenagers hanging on a corner in rival turf and blasts seven rounds into the crowd, wounding three...