Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because an enchanted story taps the author on the shoulder and titanic characters rage to be let loose. The sequel trundles along, often as not, merely because writer and readers want to spend more time with people they've grown fond of. The forces at work aren't as powerful, and enchantment can be elusive. It could be a letdown, for instance, to learn that Ishmael, rescued by the Rachel, returns to New Bedford and starts a seafood restaurant called The White Whale, only to be shut down by a spectral, one-legged inspector from the board of health...
What with new technology and the changing marketplace, titles aren't so simple anymore. Mount Sinai Medical Center recently advertised the above...
...hiked premiums 18% since the Clinton health-care bill died a miserable death in 1994. And 8% fewer Americans have health insurance because their employers have decided it just costs too much. Boy, did we show that busybody Hillary a thing or two. It's true that there aren't any of those pesky government bureaucrats mucking around in your health care--instead it's bureaucrats at Aetna or Prudential whom you must convince that those heart palpitations call for a look-see by a cardiologist. The great fear that you wouldn't be able to see your own doctor...
Certainly no one at TIME objects to the passionate display of support for Ataturk. In fact, we wonder why Britons aren't doing more to help Winston Churchill, who trails Ataturk by more than half a million votes. And how about Mao, China...
...That may be a vain hope. The camera crews that crowded around the McCaughey family after church Sunday aren't showing signs of going away any time soon. And according to the surviving members of the previous most famous multiple birth in the world, media attention is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. In an open letter to TIME, three of the Dionne quintuplets ? whom the Canadian state put on display in "Quintland" for tourists back in the Depression-ridden ?30s ? warn of the potential freak show to come. "To those who would seek to exploit...