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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
If you think conservative fiscal theorists are on drugs, the WP 's front page is a reminder that you are at least sometimes right: It details how Lawrence Kudlow , a former Reagan White House budget official and economics writer for the National Review , is easing back into the policy life three years after hitting bottom as a cocaine binger.
But young Americans aren't as helpless in the face of the tobacco-industry juggernaut as the Clintonites would like to imagine: Black teen-agers are already hitting the president's goals.
I think it makes at least an in-good-faith attempt to be fun and riveting enough on a page-by-page level so I don't feel like I'm hitting the reader with a mallet, you know, "Hey, here's this really hard impossibly smart thing.
Item : Apocalyptic drama Deep Impact , about a comet hitting the earth, said to be leaving screening audiences bathed in tears.