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...petting and wooing and hint dropping is getting hot and heavy in one chamber of Congress. With the Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, both parties have been quietly, but intensely, looking for defectors. Everywhere you turn, one senator or another is getting the TLC treatment from the other party...
...Actually, it's more like a couple dozen men and women sprinkled throughout a massive, oval-shaped chamber the size of a football field that sits near Dulles Airport. Huge, colorful maps are displayed on the walls, and people hunch over computer screens searching for the smallest disturbance that will tip the delicate balance that is the nation's air traffic system into chaos. A real-time snapshot of the U.S. airspace (depicted about five feet high) shows the enormity of the task: up to 5,000 planes overhead at any one moment...
...GERMANY The E.U.'s Future German proposals for a strong European executive with more legislative and economic powers drew a cool response from other E.U. countries. The plan, drawn up by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party, would create a new European legislative chamber to take the place of the Council of Ministers, and would give the European Parliament total control over the European Union budget. France's European Affairs Minister, Pierre Moscovici, summarily rejected the plan. Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands reacted positively, but Austria and Denmark warned against the creation of an E.U. "superstate...
...civil unions have become a part of the fabric of everyday life. In Brattleboro, a bucolic community of 12,000 residents in liberal southern Vermont, there were 292 civil unions from July to December 2000--the same number as there were straight marriages for the whole year. Even the Chamber of Commerce is a one-stop referral service. Along with the standard literature extolling the town's virtues, visitors get a list of gay-friendly B and Bs, florists, restaurants and justices of the peace...
...abroad as a modernizer. Haiti certainly needs it. The country suffers 80% unemployment, and Colombian drug traffickers have begun using the island as a transit lounge. So, inside Tabarre, his heavily guarded Port-au-Prince residence, he is showing a new persona: nouveau Jean-Bertrand, a genial statesman-cum-Chamber of Commerce President. "Life is a daily dialectical movement for me," says the ex-priest in a rare interview with TIME. "I pay attention to the global economy now, and I have to be realistic. Haiti needs investors...