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Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The new unit, known as the euro, will proceed on schedule, predicts John Hsu, CEO of John Hsu Capital Group, a New York City-based money-management firm. "But there will be all kinds of compromises. That implicitly means the euro is going to be a weak currency." Britain is expected...
This revulsion at fate-by-genetic-testing is understandable and admirable. It's also a bit crazy. That's because the sorting of people according to their genes goes on in all kinds of ways that don't involve drawing blood. It's not necessary to know the actual gene involved. In fact, the human condition can be thought of as one big genetic test. When a caveman lost his woman, or his life, to another caveman, that was a genetic test...
...repealing the cap could in the long run hurt some colleges that could now borrow more money than they could reasonably repay. But officials say that Harvard-which is already well over the $150 million limit and has a pristine credit rating and massive endowment-won't suffer this fate...
...just as Diana herself had become a tabloid star--almost a fictional star. Since the days of Thomas Hardy at least, people have been moved to passionate sorrow by the death of public personalities they have never met, and who sometimes never existed. No doubt thousands wept over the fate of Tess of the d'Urbervilles when her story appeared week by week in the Graphic in 1890, just as truly as they wept for Diana when they read of her death in the Sun in 1997. They have been deluded into thinking they actually knew her by the tireless...
DIED. VIKTOR FRANKL, 92, inspirational Austrian psychiatrist who survived Nazism's concentration camps to write Man's Search for Meaning; in Vienna. Frankl's father, mother, brother and first wife were all killed in the camps, a fate he narrowly escaped--in part, he believed, by finding meaning in helping others face the ordeal...