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...policy has had no luck fighting Wall Street, when short-term rate cuts run up against an unwillingness to spend the cheaper money, or when bond traders stubbornly keep longer-term rates high because they think the Fed is sowing long-term inflation. It?s called "pushing on a string...
...president in 2000, but in North Carolina she'd be the candidate to beat. The Republicans who might challenge her in a primary are a motley collection of congressmen, wealthy unknowns, or candidates who've lost previous statewide elections. The Democrats have so far offered up only second-string candidates as well. Their three best hopes for taking the seat - former Gov. Jim Hunt, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles, and Congressman Robert Etheridge - have all said they won't run. Democrats also don't believe they'd get much mileage out of the fact that Dole currently lives...
...This does play into one existing theory: string theory. In essence, string theory is the idea that the basic building block of the universe are these invisible strings and that the oscillation of those strings are responsible for all physical phenomena - just as all musical notes can be played on the strings of a violin...
...String theorists also hold that space contains tiny, unseen dimensions beyond the three (plus the fourth, time) we?re familiar with now - and one way to explain the mutability of the fine constant in deep space is by assuming the existence of those added dimensions...
...String theory certainly has the potential to do what Einstein couldn?t - happily unify the subatomic and Newtonian worlds - and he?d probably prefer it to a universe explained by quantum theory. Einstein hated the idea of God playing dice with the universe - a God that played violin would have been much more to his liking...