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What's happened? For three decades the twentysomething years were marked with arch abandon, each generation extending playtime a little longer. Not so long ago, this was the time for visits to nightclubs, apartments decorated with listing-board bookcases and taped posters, and rendezvous with the one--or the second or the third--who was about to get away. Now, rather suddenly, this generation dreams of Pottery Barn, slipcovered sofas and tuna-noodle surprise. "I read cookbooks," admits Angela Lee, 27, a New York teacher. "And my last five social occasions? I cooked and friends came over...
...while Jiang said throughout his speech that his country was well on its way to becoming a "modern democratic nation" whose socialist democracy would allow it to "ensure the full exercise of the rights of people," Jiang did not completely abandon the party line...
Wordlessly, Foale reversed direction and raced toward the Soyuz. He was aware that at this very second, at least, there was no real reason to abandon ship. Yes, Progress was closing in, but Tsibliyev was at the controls, and hadn't he dodged just such a bullet only weeks...
...interesting that a country that prides itself on having original thinkers so readily embraces a religion that uses conundrums, or koans, as a training device to force the mind to abandon logic. Have we quit thinking? MARY SHAFFER Frederick...
East Asia is a hot-money area. Speculators move in and out of it with swashbuckling abandon. As in any once volcanic, now cold-as-ice market, when the selling gets to be so great, the leveraged speculators have to raise capital to meet margin calls on stocks they bought on credit. This week the in-hock guys with the worst balance sheets liquidated, and markets worldwide got banged...