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Bursting Branson's Balloon The British billionaire and Virgin-owning playboy is at it again, trying to fly round the world in a balloon. The balloon itself, evidently, had different ideas...
...very next day the sponsor called up and said, "Fine. We'll print the lyrics if that's what you want," and my balloon went pfffffffffft. I did the concert, and the words to Solidarity Forever were there in the program, and the audience sang all four verses lustily, including, "They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn./ But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn./ We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom, when we learn/ That the union makes us strong...
...have a lasting impact. David Hale of Zurich Kemper Investments predicts a surge of up to 25% in Asian imports made cheap by devaluation and a contraction in U.S. exports of as much as 15%. The result could be that the U.S. trade deficit, now $191 billion, would balloon to as much $300 billion next year and fan a protectionist outcry...
OPEN SESAME Early reports suggest radiation may prevent arteries from closing up again after balloon angioplasty. It may work even better than today's tiny arterial props...
...felt a bit implicated by your assertion that Deepak Chopra, my dad, has "little familiarity with family life as most Americans live it" [FAMILY, Sept. 22]. I was not aware that drinking from the toilet, balloon animals spawned from condoms, and tongue studs constitute the American family experience. More to the point, despite having passed through my own phases of growing pains, tattoos and flunking two college courses, I have, at 22, managed to graduate from Columbia University, publish a novel, embark on my own adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching...