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...defining moment. The house divided between (1) those of us who believe in the stiff upper lip and the essential privacy of authentic human feeling, including grief; and (2) those who weep along with Elton John as he sings "Candle in the Wind" to the prostrate world, or who deposit teddy bears and such mementoes at the doorsteps of celebrities they never met. Intimacy on parade: Sorrow as pornography. Americans staged the same spectacles when John Kennedy Jr. died...
...proposition the memo offers—to pay lower-wage countries to accept our pollution—is rather straightforward. Consider a machine that could magically suck grime and litter off the streets of Los Angeles and deposit it in Calcutta. Given that the Calcutta city government has more important things to worry about, it seems reasonable that it might value clean streets somewhat less than we do and be willing to take a little bit of grime for the right fee—a fee that could be immediately redirected into other, more pressing priorities, such as saving scores...
...technically recoverable oil” is between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels, as oil prices rise, so will the amount of oil economically recoverable. Furthermore, as the technology for oil drilling improves, oil companies are able to extract more oil at cheaper costs and at smaller deposit areas, which will also increase the amount available. With the 1998 estimates higher than the 1987 results, many predict that there might be even more oil available than can be detected by current surveying equipment...
...psyche a favor by developing a phobia. The world is a scary place, and young kids are inherently fearful until they start to figure it out. If you are living with a generalized sense of danger, it can be profoundly therapeutic to find a single object on which to deposit all that unformed fear--a snake, a spider, a rat. A specific phobia becomes a sort of backfire for fear, a controlled blaze that prevents other blazes from catching. "The thinking mind seeks out a rationale for the primitive mind's unexplained experiences," says psychologist Steven Phillipson, clinical director...
...LIBRARY DEPOSIT (2/10/01): Press reports show Denise Rich donated as much as $450,000 to the Clinton library...