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...wait through 45 minutes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien before the stand-up appears. People looking for a laugh will simply log on and sift through the database of every joke and routine any comedian has ever told on TV, radio or record. The computers will then cancel out redundant routines--any piece of material that has been done by more than one comedian. This will leave Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Robert Klein as the only comedians we will ever need to listen...
...endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little prospect of an economic turnabout to deliver urban voters, Mugabe now faces a "long march" back into the countryside before...
...Cancel your appointment with the funeral director, to start. The threat from inflation will moderate. I may reel from Greenspan's potion for a while, but I'm sure I'll feel much better later in the year. The next few months in the market could be rocky, though. I'd find it soothing if folks lightened up on their speculative investments, like Internet stocks, and rotated into parts of the market that present better value: some banks and financials and lots of small-company stocks. Some foreign shares might be a good choice. And don't rule out bonds...
...Gore has proposed that he and Bradley cancel their 30-second ads and instead meet every week to engage in another "debate." When he hears that, Bill Bradley rolls his eyes and shakes his pelican chin, and calls it "a ploy...
...something is wrong before the cancer has a chance to fully develop or spread. Now researchers are eyeing a new gene-based test that they believe is better than the Pap test at identifying precancerous and malignant changes in the cervix--and could even replace it. But don't cancel your next gynecologic exam just yet. A lot more work needs to be done before the new test is ready for widespread...