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...travel is technology's greatest gift to the comedian. Those little bags of peanuts they give you--what's the deal with them? Hey, just last week I took a trip to L.A.--and my luggage took a trip to Hong Kong! Ba-boom-boom...
...Boom re the article about france's booming birthrate [Feb. 12]: A theory spreading in France is that because of the 35-hour workweek, it takes more time for employees to evolve in a company, and they should at least try to be successful with their families - meaning that they are having more kids instead of advancing their careers. I'm not sure if this is France's priority. Au contraire, those children will be able to pay for all our debts, consequences of the 35-hour workweek and our ill-managed government - unless the kids get a 32-hour...
That is a frightening prospect in a country whose future depends on how the current boom is handled. If China's economy continues on its hell-for-leather path, the country's air and water will become even more filthy than they are now, and its workers--many of whom labor in appalling conditions--will never enjoy the fruits of its economic growth. Yet no matter how enlightened Beijing technocrats may be or how thoughtfully new regulations may read, if local governments can do whatever they want, all is lost. Pan Yue, deputy head of the State Environmental Protection Administration...
...authority of an alternative Prime Minister, something his folk have not heard and seen for some time. Last week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced and a page longer than Howard's-and bears an Australian coat of arms twice as large as the P.M.'s. Talk about a shadow. Whatever John can do, Kevin can do better...
...Toward the northern edge of Bennelong, the sprawling Macquarie Centre is a temple to the boom in consumer spending that has re-kitted Australia in the Plasma Age; in the food court, Anglo-Australians eat noodles and Indochinese go for burgers, fried chicken and donuts. It's retail Disneyland, free of menace, with a throng of brisk walkers. Shoppers here have money but not a lot of time. Howard is a security blanket for the striving class. People feel that he is not only sympathetic to their ends, he is prepared to support the means as well. Life for swing...