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...unfortunates left behind to mind the store are left with scant new material to fill their daily or weekly slate. Print leans heavily on "evergreen" profiles, loosely pegged features, and shoe-leather research pieces like the New York Times' barrage of census stories. One of those landed so high on the page last week that Scott Shuger, longtime author of Slate's Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington...
...August is when the politicians and journalists in Washington make a deal to leave town and take the news with them. Congressmen go on recess and head back to their home districts; the White House usually follows suit. And the big-time journalists and pundits that dutifully fill newspapers, magazines, cable channels and web sites with all that familiar Beltway blather have their best chance to skip town without missing too much. (Except for those so desperate to be on television that they won't even schedule a vacation...
...when South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who's said he'll run for Thurmond's seat, stands a good chance of keeping it in the GOP column. If Thurmond leaves before his term?s up, South Carolina's Democratic governor would almost surely name someone from his party to fill the vacancy, giving Democrats a leg up in that race. What's more, Republican senators tell me at least three other GOP incumbents - Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, and Phil Gramm of Texas - are considering leaving when their terms are up in 2002 because they...
...major U.S. airlines have a system that seems to work. They require that parents fill out a form noting who will meet the child, that adults greeting the child produce photo identification and that family on both ends of the voyage provide phone numbers. Airlines offer escorts for children for a fee (usually $30) to hand-deliver the child to the connecting flight. G.L. Brown, an airline passenger-service consultant in Winston-Salem, N.C., told me that parents can help by arriving at least 90 minutes before the flight and by supplying phone numbers where they can be reached...
...popping those lucrative pills. "Less than 25% of the time, everyone in the health-care system is doing what they're supposed to do," says Richard Rakowski, president of American Healthways, whose stock has soared sevenfold, to nearly $35, in the past year. "We are an invisible hand to fill in those gaps...