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Another possible outgrowth of homeland security legislation is an agency that would distribute $200 to $500 million to institutions for specific research aims. The proposed Security Advanced Research Projects Agency has garnered enthusiastic support from university lobbyists...
...best friend, Adam, is arranging his own collection of autographs into a cabalistic diagram meant to signify--well, we never learn what, but it obviously services Smith's theme of the power of names. It's a novelist's conceit or a conceptual artist's, not a convincing outgrowth of character...
...public health officials, the most worrisome outgrowth of young women's shifting drinking patterns is a perceived shift in their sexual activities. Reliable statistics on sex are always hard to pin down, especially when the question is, "Did you get drunk and have a one-night stand?" But health educators at high schools are concerned by the stories they are hearing from students like Devon, a ninth-grader from Richmond, Va. Girls drink, she says, so they can "do stupid slutty things and hook up with as many guys as they want...
Kepel charactarizes the attacks on America on Sept. 11 as an outgrowth of a movement in decline. He convincingly traces the political history of Islam to prove this point, showing that widespread support of the Islamist movement has dwindled due to the conflicting interests of different demographic portions of the population. He theorizes that the use of terrorism was meant to galvanize Muslims to take up the cause of jihad against the United States. If these were indeed the goals of the attacks, they failed miserably as Muslims everywhere failed to take up arms. The call for an embracing...
...holding forth with anchor Judy Woodruff about "Nightline." "A generation ago," he harrumphed, "There was such a thing in television as the public interest." But Greenfield certainly also knows that, roughly a generation ago, there was no "Nightline." The program started in 1980 as "America Held Hostage," an outgrowth of ABC's nightly running coverage of the Iran hostage crisis. It grew into the respected institution it is because of ABC's initial desire to cover day by day, new news or not, a hot story - that is, its desire, dare we say it, to capitalize in the ratings...