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...Leonard Wu is prepared: for hay fever, for wood splinters, for kindergarden arts and crafts. His pockets are crammed with construction-paper scissors, oyster-opening pliers, eyebrow-plucking tweezers, extra-strength Kleenex packets and a bus schedule...
...American children are sick enough to stay home from school or day care. While some of those kids are seriously ill, a fairly large percentage simply need to be isolated to prevent the spread of minor illnesses such as pinkeye and chicken pox. Or they need one more fever-free day after a bout of flu or strep throat before returning to school or day care. "In a perfect world, you wouldn't give it a thought. You'd stay home," says Gail Johnson, immediate past president of the National Association for Sick Child Day Care. "But in the real...
Experts have been busy placing the burden of blame on the technology sector and its famously overvalued stock prices. Considering the hype--and subsequent expectation inflation--that has surrounded the success of the dot-coms, implicating Internet fever is a safe, uncontroversial explanation that specialists feel comfortable voicing and that the public is eager to swallow...
...Obuchi's pump-priming efforts, however, the economy has barely begun to inch out of its decade-long doldrums. There have been some timid signs of a recovery: the stock market is booming, companies are restructuring, dotcom fever is starting to catch on. But the economy slid back into a recession last year and unemployment, once unheard of, is at an all-time high of 4.9%. Rather than pushing for the serious structural reforms that the country desperately needs, Mori is likely to offer more government largesse in order to beef up his popularity during...
Cooper is just one of many Harvard students who are interested in the game show fever sweeping the nation...