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Such defenses are technically correct, but they ignore an anomaly that has been introduced into British public life by none other than the House of Windsor itself. As reigning Kings lost their real power, they had to find other reasons for the monarchy's existence. Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837, settled on an answer that has come back to haunt her descendants. Along with Albert, her beloved prince consort, she buttressed her sovereignty with the admonition that the royal family would set by example the moral tone for the nation and the empire. Collective good conduct became...
...computer. The computer, programmed with an understanding of chaotic math, then delivered anti-chaotic pulses. And the heart tissue's beats became nearly regular. Whether the drug would work the same way in living humans is another question, but the researchers predict that "smart pacemakers" might one day correct cardiac problems that are now largely intractable...
...psychologist hid the objects with a screen; she then reached behind the screen to add or remove one. But she added or subtracted objects surreptitiously as well. When the screen was lifted, the infants stared longer at a wrong number of objects than they did when the result was correct. Conclusion: they were doing a double take. Ah, science...
Conservatives tend to say, Change the culture. Democrats tend to think of family values as matters that might be addressed by government policy -- which is precisely Dan Quayle's complaint. Conservatives uphold the private realm, Democrats the public realm. Conservatives tend to stress individual responsibility and changing behavior to correct the problem; liberals are inclined to think first of programs to mitigate the bad effects of trends such as unwed motherhood...
...Republicans correct when they say this would be the greatest tax increase in history? No. In truth, the record tax hikes are all Republican products: the Reagan Administration's 1982 increase ($98 billion over four years) and the new taxes of 1990 for which Bush now apologizes ($107.6 billion over four years). Clinton's plan would actually increase taxes about $92 billion over four years -- hardly trivial, but no blue-ribbon winner...