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...last week, when former centerfold Anna Nicole Smith boom-boomed out of a Houston courtroom during a break in the latest blood feud over her dead husband's $1.6 billion oil fortune, a line of autograph hounds awaited...
...Brian Boom, vice president for science at the New York Botanical Garden, resisted his mother's entreaties on every trip back to Memphis to take his treasured Boy Scout badges and memorabilia. These trophies meant a lot to Boom. Only after he married in his 40s and became "more of a nesting person" did he feel that these mementos belonged in his own home...
...over the price of petrol. But Chavez boisterously reminded everyone that the supplier of 42% of the world's most precious commodity has the kind of leverage a superpower might yearn for. And by the way, the ex-paratrooper argued, rather than blame OPEC for threatening the global economic boom, the West should look closer to home--at high fuel taxes, market speculators, lagging refining capacity and a Christmas list of other ills...
...growing deficit. But after Election Day, it grew even larger. Gore teamed with economic adviser Robert Rubin to talk a reluctant Clinton into abandoning his "investments" - and a middle-class tax cut - to focus on deficit reduction. The move helped reduce interest rates and turn the recovery into a boom. "Al showed a decisiveness and a willingness to make tough choices," says Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, the New Democrat's think tank, who rejects the notion that Gore has left the moderate tent. "As President, he'd be ready to do it again...
...Boston and Cambridge politicians say the lack of affordable housing is the most pressing issue facing the metropolitan area, stemming from the end of rent control in 1994 and the current boom in real estate. Over the past five years, Cambridge has lost about 16,000 price-controlled units and Boston about...