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Within a few years, this debacle was a laughing stock even in the Soviet Union itself; and yet, today, it is an idea which is again be enthusiastically touted as a spur of creativity. Where could such an outlandish failure of socialist statism find a new intellectual home? Where else, but the place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus...
...enter a spur-of-the-moment trip to Boston which led directly to a meeting with Harvard women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise, and Harvard has not only one of the top swimmers in the Ivy League and the Northeast, but one who once again is having fun in the pool...
...NAFTA failure in Congress would cause Mexico and Latin America to reassess the value of swallowing bitter economic reforms in the hope of gaining greater access to rich markets. It would also call into question the U.S. ability to deliver uncontroversial trade agreements and undermine U.S. efforts to spur economic growth through a new world-trade pact...
...when Clinton's "Climate Change Action Plan" finally debuted last week, environmentalists could muster only faint praise. Aimed at rolling back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, the document lists 50 initiatives, including incentives to spur use of public transit and expanded programs to promote energy efficiency. But there are two major omissions: the plan does nothing to raise auto-fuel-economy standards, and it contains no | energy-tax hikes to boost conservation...
...price of solar technology has plummeted, the political climate has improved. While Jimmy Carter created tax breaks to spur solar development, Ronald Reagan viewed the incentives as government meddling in the energy business and unceremoniously scrapped them. In a symbolic move, Reagan also took down the solar panels Carter had installed on the roof of the White House. (The Clinton Administration is considering whether to put up new ones.) "Reagan took the steam and momentum out of solar and other forms of renewable energy development for a good 10 years," says Strong...