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...reason: though the Clintons had claimed during the campaign that they lost $68,000 on Whitewater, their accountants could document only $5,800 worth of losses for tax purposes. The issue was "a can of worms you shouldn't open," Foster wrote in notes to himself. Rather than trigger an irs audit of past Whitewater deductions by claiming a loss, the Clintons took Foster's advice and reported a $1,000 capital gain. Republicans are sure to suggest in the hearings that one reason aides removed documents from Foster's office after his death was to hide his concerns about...
...their passage reinforces the particular set of connections between this particular set of neurons, giving them the ability to re-create the image. The more often the pattern is reinforced-by repeated sightings of the person, by the effort to remember him or by connection with some other mental trigger ("This woman is attractive; she's worth getting to know better," or, "This man looks unpleasant; I need to avoid him")-the more likely, says Damasio, the pattern, or image, will not go into short-term memory, lasting weeks or months, but into permanent, long-term memory. And from there...
...Imagine if someone didn't use the sense that these two boys did," Pasquarello said. "After all, the first instinct for young kids is to pick up the firearm and pull the trigger...
...terrible tragedy," Thompson says. Defense Secretary William Perry today defended the military's handling of the attack, noting that "many officers' careers were very adversely affected by this." But Thompson says today's decision, combined with a report last month detailing a skyrocketing mishap rate in the service, may trigger a backlash in Congress. "Family members of the dead are already screaming about the lack of accountability in today's Air Force," he says. "What congressman is going to turn down an Air Force widow when the military hasn't done...
...lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...