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...Party will tolerate. The government has already outlawed the online transmission of pornography and state secrets, and in February it required all Internet users to register with the police. The Chinese people may be only 100 meters from the information highway, but those last 100 meters could be the trickiest...
...orbit for a year of intensive study. The mission should give astronomers important clues to the formation of the planets and the origin of asteroids. Just as significant, however, it should demonstrate that NASA has started to change its bloated, bureaucratic ways. Although this is one of the trickiest space missions ever, it's also one of the cheapest. The Galileo probe, now in orbit around Jupiter, cost $1.6 billion and took nearly a decade, while NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) came in at $118 million and was built in two years. Says Wesley Huntress, NASA's associate administrator...
...trickiest problem of all is, Who will rate the shows, and how they will be rated? The telecommunications bill encourages the networks to devise their own rating system; if they haven't done so in a year, the fcc is empowered to set up a panel for creating one. One possible system is currently being tested in Canada. Programs are given a rating of from 0 to 5 in each of three categories: violence, sex and profanity. By setting their V-chip dial to numbers of their choice, parents can block out all shows with higher than that level...
...turning visions into reality has always been the trickiest step in conducting a successful revolution. Five years after the first approved experiments on humans in the U.S., there are now 600 Americans enrolled in 100 clinical trials. Yet after all the tests and all the hype, there is still no unambiguous proof that gene therapy has cured--or even helped--a single patient...
Still, the trickiest question is, How will the G.O.P. pay for the tax cuts? They vowed to spell out their plans for financing the tax breaks, but two-thirds of the money raised by the bill would come from $177 billion in spending reductions yet to be specified...