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...Game the hot-button issue that will reveal a rift at the very heart of the new administration? Repeated attempts by The Crimson to contact the Clinton/Gore transition team yielded no response to this crucial question...
Enfield, who wore a button that read "Pro-Choice, Pro-Clinton," reluctantly complied with Lennon's requests. She then said that Democratic candidate Bill Clinton strongly advocates abortion rights...
...feels. Today people in acute pain can control their own medication with PCAs, or patient-controlled analgesia. These are digital pumps that are connected to a catheter. Physicians set a base amount of drugs that enter the body continuously. When pain increases, the patient can push a button and get more medication, up to a maximum set by the doctor. Gone are the every-four- hours injections of morphine that left a patient in agony for the final hour of each cycle as the drug wore...
...couch potatoes of the future, whose every entertainment wish will be granted at the touch of a button, may have trouble interacting with one another in the real world. One hypothesis: people will become more self- centered, less attuned to their neighbors and society. Bridging the gap between cultures and races could become more difficult. Civility will suffer too. "Because most public events and entertainment will be experienced privately, people will lose a sense of how to behave in public," says Postman. "Even on the screen in movie theaters, they already have to tell people not to talk...
...attack him. More important perhaps, it reminded voters of the fundamental choice they make when they step into the ballot booth each four years: Who deserves to sit in the Commander in Chief's chair? That used to boil down to whose finger Americans wanted on the nuclear button. But in the post-cold war era, does it matter if that man is George or Bill...