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...powerless, alienated and potentially disruptive work force." Conservatives, meanwhile, see Reich's call for more federal "investment" in education and infrastructure as merely an attractive new label for a bigger, more wasteful, more intrusive bureaucracy. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, predicts that the Reich-Clinton program "would destroy far more productive jobs than it would create, because it relies on more government spending and taxing." Jim Pinkerton, an iconoclastic Republican thinker who until recently worked in the Bush campaign and White House, says, "I agree with three-fourths of what Reich writes." But Pinkerton doubts that simply throwing more...
There are few periods in history when the world has been stable enough for a serious attempt at collective security. Rivalries and instability usually conspire to destroy the motivation and trust necessary...
...four characters struggle frantically to choose between continuing to live out the fallacy of their family structure and the subconscious awareness that an acknowledgement of that fallacy will destroy the thin threads of unity among them...
...scenes show volatile, yet sensitive, characters who have outlived their image of themselves. Years of family life have dulled them to each's hangups and worries about the rest of the group's behavior. For example, one brother's "worldly" advice turns out to be a jealous ploy to destroy his sibling with alcohol and apathy...
...being an entertainer in such a complex field is a difficult task, "an ongoing battle with scientists" who always assume the worst--that an ignorant reporter will get a detail wrong and destroy the story. Angier says scientists' mistrust of writers is unwarranted. "By and large, I find my colleagues to be incredibly well-trained and sophisticated about science," she says...