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President Bush’s new budget contains a 7.2 percent cut for the Environmental Protection Agency, a 10 percent reduction for the Small Business Administration and asks for the elimination of Education Department programs that prevent alcohol abuse and high school dropouts. Seven cabinet-level departments and 63 government...
Like other games that lend themselves to statistical reduction, cricket can be brutally efficient in judging its players across the years. There?s usually no need to look beyond the weight of runs scored and wickets taken to assess a player?s proper place in the cricketing pantheon. But averages...
BCRA’s opponents had claimed that banning soft money and restricting advertising was tantamount to limiting the right to free speech of corporations, unions and special interest groups. In rejecting this argument, the Supreme Court declared, in effect, that the importance of protecting of these means of speech...
It is interesting to note that when President Bush unveiled his proposal, he listed these recent major achievements of space exploration: pictures of the rings of Saturn and the outer planets, evidence of water on Mars and the moons of Jupiter, discovery of more than 100 planets outside our solar...
Space-exploration proponents deride as lack of vision the mention of technical barriers or the insistence that needs on Earth come first. Not so. The former is rationality, the latter the setting of priorities. If Mars proponents want to raise $600 billion privately and stage their own expedition, more power...