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The Los Angeles Times--which fronts the Social Security news in a story that splits the difference between the other two papers--leads instead with a story about a Maryland biotech firm that has made remarkable progress in cracking the genetic code and is seeking patents for 6,000 of its research finds.
The objective of reducing (not eliminating) poverty comes attached to two other ideas--"helping parents make time for their children" and what he characterized in his speech as "cracking down on deadbeats who abandon their children."
As I mentioned, Bradley's serious policy proposal of the day was to save $10 billion a year and $125 billion over the next decade by cutting corporate tax subsidies and cracking down on tax shelters.
has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.
Another reports that fraternities and sororities are cracking down on drinking, and promoting studying: The National Panhellenic Conference has declared 1997--this is not a joke--"The Year of the Scholar."