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...SQUEEZE The economy heats up, but wages, perks and benefits are still on ice. Is it a boom if it feels like a bust...
...tocks to build the pressure. But then there's the set: a life-sized homage to Barbie's Dream House. And the contest categories, which focus heavily on Cher and Liz Taylor. And the fact that reigning champion Maddy, the femme fatale brunet in the low-rider jeans and bust-hugging purple top, was born a man. Welcome to Pink, one of the most popular programs on GAY-TV, Italy's 24-hour satellite channel. "I want to show that gay people are not UFOs," Pink host Fabio Canino says during a taping break. "I hate the word normal...
...dotcom bust. Staggering budget deficits. A hellzapoppin' gubernatorial recall. What other misfortune could happen to California? Well, Joan Didion, who was born and raised there, could write an elegantly acerbic book arguing that the sustaining myths by which the state defines itself are false, self-deluding and corrupt. Where I Was From (Knopf; 226 pages) is that book, and Governor-elect Schwarzenegger, for one, can give thanks that it was written too soon to include...
...part because the U.S. government's policy during that time has failed to produce alternative energy sources. Whipsawed by lobbyists and special interests, taxpayer-supported programs have succeeded mainly in making a few people rich and protecting ineffectual schemes. To be sure, not all energy programs have been a bust. For example, tax credits that gave homeowners an incentive to install storm windows and insulate their homes got results. But the synfuel tax credit is a dead end. It doesn't increase U.S. energy production. It's just a windfall for those who have found a way to exploit...
...learned more fun and frivolous lessons here as well. I’ve learned that Irish men seem sexy until they get on the dance floor (keep them chatting at the bar, ladies, you don’t want to see them bust a move). It’s OK to go to the campus pub in between your 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. classes. To de-frizz my hair, “you’d best go back to New York” (that comes from the wise woman at the local hair salon). Irish youth prefer Budweiser...