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Kennedy had the Cold War to spur a nation to action. We don't have that, but we can create a war on the educational front. California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson this year implemented a law requiring elementary school classes to contain no more than 20 students; Clinton should do the same nationally. He should up the ante on science and math education, selling bonds to support funding just as if we were trying to best the Russians in space...
...emotional pendulum has swung back a bit. While doctors now accept the fact that new illnesses and new potentially devastating strains of familiar diseases like influenza will continue to threaten humans, they also know that adopting the right strategy can contain the damage. In this view, the fight against infectious disease is neither a leisurely war of attrition nor a desperate retreat. Instead, it looms as a protracted guerrilla conflict in which reliable intelligence and rapid reaction are the keys to survival. The enemy could strike anywhere at any time. Only when a disease outbreak has been contained can doctors...
...that preoccupies Washington, the five-year-old battle of attrition against Saddam. It has involved an unremitting test of wills in which the Iraqi leader, driven by powerful motives of survival and revenge, regularly seeks to frustrate or lash out at the U.S. while Washington strives to contain his disruptive ambitions. Whenever Saddam sends out his tanks, American planes and missiles are bound to respond: force must always be met with force under the unwritten rules of engagement heavily determined by American politics. This war will end only with the demise of Iraq's resilient bully-boy leader...
...town used to contain a grist mill, used to process grain, a blacksmith's shop, a dairy with 15 cows and a hostel, all of which have since closed. No businesses remain...
Gleeful Republicans tried to contain themselves while they gauged how to make the most of the Morris blowup. In Santa Barbara, California, Bob Dole was alternately relaxing and making the occasional campaign appearance in a crucial state he still shows no serious sign of winning. At one of his appearances, a radio reporter's microphone picked up Dole talking to two supporters about the Morris scandal. Said he: "It says something about who you surround yourself with, doesn...