In a message dated 97-10-16 18:09:19 EDT, you write:
> the
>CIA disclosed Wednesday how much money the United States
> spends annually for intelligence: $26.6 billion.
good heavens -- would that this actually created intelligence, as in original
thinking, smartness, individuality
At the end of last month, Paul Phillips asked about reasons to oppose
privatizing social security. Today on CSPAN I saw something I hadn't
seen before. A very trim, well-dressed and articulate gentleman, who
repeatedly stressed to the audience that he was "a good conservative
Republican", royall
Sorry, Comrades:
If the previous system in which the LISTNAME, not individual names,
appears in the mail screen is not restored, and quickly, I will have to sign
off of both PEN-L and OPE-L (which, despite my failure to contribute
regularly, I do enjoy receiving). I simply cannot have pe
Molly Ivins
This Is Your Breasts on Organochlorines
AUSTIN -- And now for something completely different
on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I use the word "completely" with some
confidence, as I know of very few other sources for what I'm about to
tell you.
I'm to appear on a local community college panel discussing the economics
of the family, present and future. The other two participants are a
sociologist and an historian. I would be grateful for any data sources,
summaries, studies, etc. which might be of use. Please send them to me
personally
One of the consequences of the anti-social offensive in education
is to decrease the accessibility to higher education. Amongst the
first victims are the sons and daughters of the working class who
are being denied their right to eduction.
In Quebec, it was also reported recently that univer
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I'll try to keep this short and sweet (dropping the stuff that generates
more heat than light). At the end of the following, it's very clear that
Ajit and I have been talking past each other, discussing completely
different questions. Bored readers should now hit the delete button -- but
only afte
It was actually Adam Smith who first summised that labor produces all
wealth. David Ricardo, arguing against the corn laws of England proceeded
Marx in making that same deduction; and invented the labor theory of value.
Ricardo quoted Smith, "The real price of everything...is the toil and
trouble
Not only do chemical companies fund breast cancer awareness month, most of
the research on breast cancer headed by the American Cancer Society is also
funded by chemical companies -- hence, no research into the toxic connection
there. However, several independent studies have been performed by gr
I am usually just ahead or just behind the cusp of fall colors at their
height. This year I was right on the cusp and I couldn't ask for a more
spectacular display of scarlet, orange and yellow in the Catskill mountains
of my youth, where I had gone to visit my mother.
After she picked me up at t
Try the Labor Project for Working Families in at U.C. Berkeley.
Ellen Starbird
>I'm to appear on a local community college panel discussing the economics
>of the family, present and future. The other two participants are a
>sociologist and an historian. I would be grateful for any data sources
And, as Alexander Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair reported last fall
in Nature and Politics, the Delaney clause, which banned
carcinogens from the food supply, was repealed by Congress, and
signed by Clinton on the same day he signed welfare destruction.
Child abuse?:
"GT Global Mutual Funds introduces the NEW adventures of Henry the Hedgehog
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in trust for a child, you will receive, upon request, a
William S. Lear wrote:
>At the end of last month, Paul Phillips asked about reasons to oppose
>privatizing social security. Today on CSPAN I saw something I hadn't
>seen before. A very trim, well-dressed and articulate gentleman, who
>repeatedly stressed to the audience that he was "a good cons
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote, in part:
>...[E]xtracting meaning from the essay, as opposed to the
> symphony, is quite some task, something beyond my limited powers, I'm
> afraid.
[]
> I'm sure the work could somehow be interpreted, brought
In a message dated 97-10-16 20:40:23 EDT, you write:
<< Yep, I got tired of the same all-too-easy and all-too-predictable
dismissal of the old guy as having been right about so-and-so but, as we now
know from the superior vantage point of economic theory in this advanced
age, wrong about th
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