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...other words, Reischauer says, "what Gore wants to do is a shadow of what happened in the 1960s." As the Vice President's team is quick to point out, under Clinton-Gore, government spending as a measure of GDP has fallen to its lowest level since 1966. And even with all Gore's new proposals, his plan promises that by 2008 spending as a share of the economy will fall to its lowest level since the Eisenhower Administration...
Everyone around you has quit smoking. Everywhere you look, companies are advertising new and improved ways to kick the habit. Restaurants, cafes and now even bars are non-smoking. All this leads to one conclusion: Fewer Americans are smoking than ever before...
...sort?baranek gets 70% of the 1,200 cu m of wood Cemex exports monthly from lands where he has aggressively pushed replanting from the outset. His partners and employees try to encourage neighbors to reduce their vulnerability to fire. But most lack the means to take effective action even if they have the will. He wonders why the government can?t settle the landless on land that is not virgin forest. ?incra dumps people in the forest and thinks they are finished with their responsibilities,? he says. Yet baranek still sees the road as inevitable, and a good thing...
...Nonetheless, baranek stands out as a relative skeptic in his region, where everyone else speaks of the advent of the paved road as a magic pill for economic development. While all fear fire, few make the connection with the highway, and even fewer in this part of Par? are aware that they live in a potential tinderbox...
...Some of this comes down to good old human obstinacy: Within the 25 percent of folks who smoke, there is probably a baseline number of smokers who simply cannot, or will not quit - no matter what measures the federal government takes. And even now, the CDC should take heart: Given the intensive anti-smoking campaigns (funded in part by massive influxes of cash from beleaguered tobacco companies) launched in the last two years, it?s possible that when the 2000 numbers are released in 2002 the CDC will have reason to be pleased. And maybe by 2002 the agency will...