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...Coming on top of the system's failure to pass two out of three basic tests in the past year, the intelligence assessment will likely prompt President Clinton to fudge - he won't kill the program, but he may simply leave it on life support for his successor to determine its fate. But Governor Bush is a lot more bullish on missile defense, charging that the limited system currently on offer is inadequate, and that only a comprehensive interceptor system capable of neutralizing all threats, whether from Iraq or from Russia, can protect America. That's essentially a reprise...
...Every low-income working family in America must have access to basic health insurance--for themselves and for their children," says Bush. He boasts that Texas was first to let patients sue HMOs...
...stands a chance of becoming the President with one of the thinnest resumes in a century is teaching the Bushes themselves a thing or two about how the game of politics can be played. George W. has relied heavily on the clan throughout his life, but he skipped basic training, wrote his own rules, and he has had enough experience rebelling against his family to understand why, in 1992, the country did too. The ways in which he is different from his dad may be as important a selling point as all that they have in common. George...
Hard, for example, to imagine Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull putting on this week's Ladyfest, Olympia's six-day festival of female bands, artists and speakers, open to both sexes. Workshops range from guitar lessons to basic auto mechanics, "girls only." Besides Sleater-Kinney, other nationally known Olympia acts performing include Bangs (a blissful marriage of the Go-Gos and the Ramones), the Need, and the Gossip. The bands from out of town are also formidable (Cat Power, the Rondelles, Bratmobile), but it's no coincidence that it's happening here...
...Then, two years ago, this 49-year-old neurobiologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., showed in a groundbreaking experiment that neurons are constantly being born, particularly in the learning and memory centers. Gage's discovery forced scientists to rethink some of their most basic ideas about how the brain works...