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If the consensus interpretation of the 1998 elections is that moderates won and conservatives lost--and that the Bush boys represent what moderates are and what conservatives aren't--then conservatism, as a word and as a philosophy, is in deep trouble.
Britain won Canada and everything east of the Mississippi, including Spanish Florida.
He got his share of bad press, for which I take--and am given--entirely too much credit (read my December 1986 feature story in Discover by clicking ). By 1985, when Prusiner's own papers were still suggesting that the prion hypothesis was at best a long shot, he won a $4-million congressional award "to determine the structure of prions and how they cause disease."
"My monument has won!"
The Independent said that "victory for NATO should also put an end to the thoughtless assertion that 'wars cannot be won from the air.