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Although conventional wisdom holds that voters base their choice on the person at the top of the ticket, this year's vice-presidential candidates are attracting plenty of attention. Just three months ago, a number of Republicans ( urged President Bush to dump Quayle because he was perceived as a serious drag on the G.O.P. ticket. But Quayle hung on, gave a well-received speech at the Houston convention, and has since waged an energetic campaign. Gore's choice as the Clinton running mate was widely applauded, and the young Southerners have developed a remarkable campaign synergy that many feel...
Since vanity and taste are with us always, TIME asked top designers for their daydreams of a half-century hence. Christian Lacroix and visionary film director Tim Burton favor technology to overcome environment. Donna Karan merges clothing with communications gear. Geoffrey Beene believes that men will dump the suit -- as he already has. Giorgio Armani, noting that the basic 1940s outline is still chic, plumps for his easy elegant styles, be they last year's or next millennium...
...that puts a growing strain on the health-care system. Private cars give us unprecedented mobility but swell the volume of traffic to the point of gridlock. In the course of enjoying the delights of consumption, we generate so much garbage that we are running out of places to dump...
When we turned away from the Croatian border, we still thought the U.N. would meet us. Instead three dump trucks joined us. There was one van in front with Serbian military police, and on each bus was a soldier with an automatic weapon. At Skender Vakuf, they told us we were passing the front lines, so we should lie down and not look out the windows...
That was typical of the daggers flung at Quayle's back during one of the most bruising weeks of his embattled tenure. Desperate to do something dramatic to reverse Clinton's 2-to-1 lead over Bush in the polls, many Republicans last week stepped up their calls to dump Quayle. No sooner had Bush publicly stated that Quayle's spot on the ticket was "very certain" than the Vice President handed fresh ammunition to his critics. Asked by CNN'S Larry King what he would do if his daughter, now 13, were grown and had an unwanted pregnancy, Quayle...