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...going to enjoy it," Barnaby said yesterday from his New Hampshire residence, speaking with a hint of the enthusiasm that made him such a durable coach...
...deep, deep trouble when leading economists can do no better than to suggest that the poor and aged pay more. Not one mention of the contributions of capitalism to its own problems. No suggestion that military spending is the most inflationary force of all. No hint that physicians and the organization of medical care have anything to do with Medicare and Medicaid runovers-nope, it's those dumb people who "blithely" accept their physicians' recommendations. The solution? To blame the victims...
Maybe there's nothing there to have insight into. There's a strong logical presumption that anyone with that much power must lead an interesting life. There's no definitive Nixon biography yet, but the books of Woodward and Bernstein hint at just how fascinating that book could be. There's no definitive LBJ biography yet either, mostly because Bill Moyers won't write it, but his, too, was a big life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance...
...professions people end up in, we all have a right to know what the exams mean," Ed Hanley, a Nader employee who lobbied for the truth-in-testing bill in Albany last year, says. Obviously, though, the right-to-know issue wouldn't be vital unless there was some hint the tests weren't worthwhile. "This will enable us to resolve once and for all the debate over what the tests are good for," Hanley says...
...Olmecs sculptured a 3,500-year-old figure of a turtle with a magnetic snout. To the Olmecs, Malmstrom speculates the magnetism may have been the magical power by which sea turtles found their way across great expanses of ocean. (He also suggests that the magnetic turtle may hint of Olmec contacts with the Chinese, since they also made their early compasses in the shape of turtles.) As for the Fat Boys, Malmstrom says, their magnetism may represent the life force, with the navel symbolizing birth, and the temple consciousness or knowledge...