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...survey, which included 1,792 adults, took place over July 5-9 - well into the current economic downturn (or correction, depending upon which newscast you favor). And that brings us to one of the many reasons to take the results with a grain of salt: Does the national economic forecast affect worker satisfaction? Probably. Skeptics will also point out that the country?s largest and most powerful union organizer has a vested interest in eliciting dissatisfied responses from employees...
...soaked up practically the entire current surplus, as Democrats had warned. The non-Social Security surplus would be just $1 billion in 2001 and not much more than that in 2002. Over 10 years, the non-Social Security surplus would be just $575 billion, down $850 billion from the forecast in April...
...What does the future hold for Courtney? Even if the criminal charges don?t stick, he?s probably not looking at a particularly bright forecast. Susan Winckler, a spokesperson for the American Pharmaceutical Association says that even if the Missouri state board of pharmacy doesn't vote to revoke his license, she very much doubts he will just slide right back into his white coat when all this is over. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," Winckler says. "Pharmacists are bound by a code of ethics, and an oath - they?re bound to hold patients above everything...
...DEATH DO US PART: PW predicts press attention for "Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America?s Future" by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bruce Shapiro (New Press; October). "This will be a must-read for anti-death penalty advocates...FORECAST: A hot political topic and high-visibility father-and-son authors guarantee media attention for this that should generate at least an initial spike in sales...
...VAGINA MONOLOGUE: Susanna Kaysen, the bestselling author of "Girl, Interrupted," tells the story of how her vagina began to give her pain rather than pleasure in "The Camera My Mother Gave Me" (Knopf; October 10). PW replies, Who cares? "Thin, disappointing...FORECAST: Already the subject of a NYT piece suggesting this ?autopathography? may become the target of a backlash against such transgressive confessions, Kaysen?s slight memoir will spark some controversy, but don?t expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality...