Word: supportive
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...Governor, John Engler, opposes capital punishment. So does Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. There's been one execution in Ohio since 1976, three in Pennsylvania. "The hang-'em-high culture of Texas doesn't play in the Midwest," says pollster Geoff Garin. And among Roman Catholics, considered a swing group, support for capital punishment is lower than among other groups, at least in part because of the church's aggressive stance against...
...American workers for every person over 65. In 2030 there will be only two workers for each of the elderly (which is why economist Hokenson, of DLJ, calls Social Security "the mother of all Ponzi schemes"). Those two are either going to have to work a lot harder to support all the old folks, or we will see a spectacle of misery unprecedented in the world's wealthiest nation. Two irrefutable facts, the size of the boomer generation and the tendency of the elderly to vote in greater percentages than any other age group, will converge to create a daunting...
...strong chance of intergenerational conflict. "Watch for tension to increase among generations as the boomers enter their late 50s," says Dr. David Reuben, who heads the geriatrics division at the UCLA School of Medicine. Noting that "it costs between $35,000 and $50,000 a year [to support] one person in a nursing facility," a strapped nation will, Reuben concludes, have to choose between caring for its children or its parents. Have you ever noticed how the elderly in your town vote when a proposal to raise property taxes to pay for education hits the local ballot? Count...
Studies with adult monkeys in the mid-1960s seemed to support the belief that the supply of neurons is fixed at birth. Hence the surprise when Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross of Princeton University reported last year that the monkeys they studied seemed to be minting thousands of new neurons a day in the hippocampus of their brain. Even more jarring, Gould and Cross found evidence that a steady stream of the fresh cells may be continually migrating to the cerebral cortex...
Those who support the U.S. having permanent normal trade relations with China are delusional, shortsighted and naive. The agreement may cut Chinese tariffs and serve to open up new markets for American manufacturers and service providers, but inward-looking China will not turn on a dime to meet U.S. criteria for human rights. China will promise the moon but deliver only manufactured products and immigrants to its trading partners. In the short term, North American jobs will be lost when U.S. manufacturers move plants to China, where labor is cheap. The U.S. trade deficit with China will escalate to frightening...