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That way, the really cruel choice would fade as the credits rolled. The father would get his child back, as a majority of Americans have hoped. Elian would get to keep his new puppy, drink chocolate milk to his heart's content and never have to go back to Cuba. Castro would be denied his trophy, his revolutionary crowds would disperse, and attention would fall once more on the dissidents he keeps throwing in jail. Republicans would welcome two new voters, the Clinton Administration would celebrate the rule of law, and the Cuban expatriate community in Miami would...
...stake. Clinton's leaving a position in which he's popular for stewarding a booming economy, and stands to become a famous private citizen who's kept in the limelight primarily as a perjurer and adulterer. As the jubilation of the Internet revolution's prosperity begins to fade, America may not be so forgiving of the man who's only its second president to be impeached...
...perfume counter lately? Better set aside more than your lunch hour if you do. Led by the great French houses--Guerlain, Chanel, Christian Dior and Lancome--the perfume industry has become a hothouse of innovation, churning out literally hundreds of new fragrances, some of them designed to blossom and fade in the marketplace in about the same time span as the flowers that provide their essence. Fragrance, says perfume expert Michael Edwards, has become a "fashion accessory. Companies are mining and reinventing their heritage...
...good news, experts say, is that the bias is beginning to fade. An increasing number of start-ups that may have previously shunned the "gray hairs" (anybody over 35 in Silicon Valley parlance) have learned that bringing in a high-level executive with a 15- or 20-year track record can be essential to getting the job done...
...universe will eventually grow unpleasantly dark and cold. Stars produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black. Such were the gloomy alternatives that Robert Frost wrote about after being briefed on the theory of the cosmic endgame by the astronomer Harlow Shapley...