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...Unitarian church in Miami, a crowd of Gray Panthers, a senior-citizens organization, is gearing up to lobby at Florida's next legislative session. Some are knitting, but they're all as ready as ever to "kick butt and take names," as one says. Yet the issues they're tackling this morning--universal preschool and youth-delinquency prevention--are hardly AARP mainstays. A woman lays down her knitting needles when a guest speaker from the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation laments that last year more than 500 kids under age 12 were arrested in Miami-Dade County. "Kids and elderly...
...thrive. The demise of Rover, the last British-owned mass car manufacturer, is perhaps inevitable. Bailed out repeatedly by successive British governments, the firm long failed to control its labor relations or its costs, and the quality of its cars was so uneven that they became the butt of national jokes. There was a glimmer of hope in the 1990s, when the firm was acquired and run by BMW. The German luxury automaker invested in a new premium model, the 75, but it didn't sell well. Jay Nagley, managing director of British consultants Spyder Automotive, says it was beautifully...
...AARP has said that in opposing voluntary PRAs, it is looking out for its members’ children and grandchildren. But if that is the case, I have a message for AARP: Butt out! We children and grandchildren are adults who can make our own decisions. And many of us will indeed choose to divert some of our payroll taxes into private accounts, because PRAs are highly likely to generate more money for our pensions than the current pay-as-you-go system will...
There is nothing fluffy about this Star Wars game: no Jar Jar, no Ewoks and absolutely no smooching, just a bunch of grizzled space commandos kicking Geonosian butt (and several other species of butt) for the greater glory of the Republic. (It all takes place between Episodes II and III.) Game play combines hard-core first-person combat with some brainier tactical-squad-based action. If the past few movies didn?t have enough military edge for you, don?t worry, it?s all right here. (For PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
...result was a verbal conflagration that dominated the newsgroups for weeks and is still smoldering four months later. "It looks like Beavis and Butt-head finally bought themselves a cheap modem," wrote an Internet regular, in one of the gentler messages. Things deteriorated when the AOL crowd began to give as good as they got, hinting that the old-timers ought to make way for people who actually paid for their Internet services. Feelings are still raw on both sides and are not likely to be salved until the next wave of newbies arrives -- probably from CompuServe, as early...