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...another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...
...waning days of his presidency, Bill Clinton signed into effect regulations designed to protect patients' records from the prying eyes of insurance companies, Internet chat rooms and nosy neighbors. A few days later, however, a newly inaugurated President Bush slammed on the brakes. It was important, the Bush White House said, for Tommy Thompson, the new head of Health and Human Services, to have time to look over the regulations. And, Bush added, a delay would also allow the American people to weigh in on the new rules. Skeptics assumed Bush was holding off to allow insurance industry bigwigs...
...help illuminate for the producers alliance—as it did for baseball owners six years ago—that competition for the American leisure hour is at an all-time high. For while our televisions and movie screens sit silent, our video games and radio stations and Internet chat rooms will not. And if the movie and television industry would like to successfully re-enter the playing field after the strike is over, they’re going to have to exercise more quality control over content than we’ve seen in the last few years. (Read...
...Chat with Michael Lemonick about this story on AOL Wednesday at 7 p.m. E.T. at Keyword: TIME
...last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand. As president, Bush often told his aides, "I know the Chinese" - and then rang up Beijing for a friendly chat. The habit drove advisers like Scowcroft crazy, not only because they couldn't keep track of what he said but also because Bush Sr. had a tendency to soft-pedal problems. As tensions rose last week, Bush aides began to hope that a family powwow was taking place...