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...there were plenty of long lines. In France, motorways backed up as drivers eager to break their francs into euro-change skipped the credit card and electronic "smart-pass" lanes and flooded tollbooths. Meanwhile, some small shopkeepers have resisted government urgings to get the old currency out of the system by giving euros in change for deutsche marks, francs or pesetas. "I am not a bank," gripes a vegetable seller at the Place d'Aligre outdoor market in Paris...
...flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...
...dominant theme is relaxation. A peppermint and spearmint eye mask lies on the shelf and the sound of trickling water can be heard from a miniature artificial waterfall. A card on top of the book shelf reads, “Take time every day to sit still and listen...
...Incidents like this - and airport waits longer than the flight itself - have pushed me into the camp of the national ID card. Yes, a tamperproof ID smacks of Big Brother and Nazis intoning "Your papers, please," but the Federal Government already holds a trove of data on each of us. And it's less likely to mess up or misuse it than the credit-card companies or the Internet fraudsters, who have just as much data if not more. (Two years ago, for a TIME article, I ordered dinner for 30 entirely online, and I am still plagued by vendors...
...idea of a national ID card leaped into the headlines just after Sept. 11. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison offered to donate the pertinent software. Ellison went to see Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was noncommittal despite his obvious enthusiasm for expanding government powers into other areas that trouble civil libertarians...