Caltech's Camerer points out that people are naturally shortsighted.

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Something else of national significance happened in July 1948: Britain's National Health Service opened for business, and immediately, doctors were overrun by women with completely prolapsed wombs, toothless men, shortsighted children millions of people who had lived with inconveniences and minor disabilities that made their lives more difficult, but who couldn't previously afford to correct them.

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It is a strange bazaar of information and a repository of embarrassment for people who were forthright (or shortsighted) enough to forgo anonymity in their postings.

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Unlike President Bush, however, President Clinton and the American people will have to live with the adverse strategic, political and financial consequences of such a shortsighted policy approach.

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It would be both shortsighted and unwise for the Republican majority in the House to attempt to repeal this measure at the very time the people of America need a sense of security and stability.

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