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Charlene and Todd Weber, for instance, could never have handled caring for their daughter at home without the safety net provided by the Arizona system's long-term-care program, which guarantees aid to severely disabled children. In 1992 Charlene had twin girls, one of whom, Ariel, was born seriously disabled, with no genital body openings and many of her internal organs in the wrong place. Charlene, a part-time flight attendant for America West, and Todd, a supervisor in a waste-disposal company, have a combined income of about $45,000. Todd's employee health insurance, Intergroup, paid...
Barely two hours before Air Force One left Washington on Tuesday, Ireland's Prime Minister John Bruton arrived in London for an unexpected late-night news conference with Major. The two leaders announced a twin-track initiative to get the peace talks moving again. The hangup had been British insistence that the ira begin turning in its guns and explosives before Sinn Fein could join all-party talks aimed at creating a new governmental structure for the North. The ira had steadfastly refused...
...statement from yesterday's Times article: "Traveling 106,000 miles per hour, the 746-pound capsule streaked into the fringes of the planet's mostly hydrogen atmosphere, the friction of its passage producing a fiery glow as bright as the sun." Isaac Asimov, eat your heart out. Wonder-twin powers, activate...
After the spectacular failure of Margaret Thatcher's poll tax in the United Kingdom, you wouldn't think that anyone would seriously discuss its equally evil twin, the flat tax, in this country. After all, we split with that now-defunct empire because we knew how to do all the taxation and representation stuff much better. But the flat tax, most recently championed by Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, has returned to the spotlight...
...more scientists struggle to explain the Cambrian explosion, the more singular it seems. And just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that...