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Anyone who has ever fallen asleep in an airplane, waking four hours later to find one side of their body completely numb, understands the crucial importance of finding a comfortable position. The same applies to classroom-napping, where some seats can virtually cripple the unschooled sleeper in a matter of minutes...
...Nagano is lit up with that same sense of bright excitement, flags fluttering, hardware stores displaying signs that say, GO, JAMAICA, GO (the bobsled team is back), and bus drivers reciting, "Have a nice day," even after night has fallen. The area had been planning to stage an Olympics in 1940, but war put its plans on hold for more than half a century. Now, in the excitement of the moment, Olympic athletes were offered free bowling lessons at the Young Pharaoh Bowl, and even in public rest rooms, visitors were treated to piped-in vibraphone versions of local nursery...
...networks paid $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005, even though viewer ratings have fallen 33% since the 1980s [BUSINESS, Jan. 26]. I don't understand the logic behind that staggering price, but I do know why fewer people are watching the NFL. The networks use, and sometimes even call, time-outs to insert commercials at every conceivable chance. They disrupt the flow of the game by presenting more advertising than action. The new agreement may last until 2005, but by then, will anyone be watching? R. CONRAD STEIN Chicago...
John Goodman can soon be seen in the movies Fallen, Blues Brothers 2000, The Big Lebowski and The Borrowers...
That doesn't mean that there will be anything left of his presidency. Clinton's grandest ambitions for his have already, repeatedly fallen prey to his scandals; one reason the whole health-care initiative fell apart was that it was a bad idea, but the other was that lawmakers could just ignore him as long as he was in deep trouble over Whitewater. A leader without ideology, with no movement to lead or party to follow, has only his stature and powers of persuasion to move an agenda. And those are dwindling fast. --Reported by Jay Branegan, Margaret Carlson, Michael...