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...claim tags for domestic flights. A few carriers allow passengers to do the check-in ritual at home from a PC. British Airways customers in the U.K. can now pick their seat via a wap phone. And around the world, immigration departments are experimenting with palm recognition scanners to hasten the ordeal for frequent travelers...
...their wing-tipped shoes. In section, on dates and in general, they're the kind of guys who are quick to share a laugh, help out a friend or hold open the door. Lest this column be relegated to the dusty collection of feminist anti-final club diatribes, I hasten to assure the reading public that some of my best friends are final club members...
...bill that could make the living for terminally ill patients much more painful. Grossly misnamed the "Pain Relief Promotion Act," the bill, which passed the House last year, would make it a federal crime for any doctor to prescribe morphine or any other controlled substances with the intent to hasten a patient's death. Convicted doctors would serve a minimum 20 years in prison. Opponents in the Senate have planned to filibuster the bill. But if it passes anyway, President Clinton should veto...
...someone who's watched the show on say, 15 or 20 occasions (primarily, I hasten to add, while home from work suffering from a terrible fever and possible hallucinatory episodes), I've spent at least 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out what keeps viewers coming back. (I dismissed the car-wreck analogy - it's grisly, but you can't tear your eyes away - as too simplistic). And after some contemplation, I've come to the conclusion that there was something about the cohosts' interaction that made the audience (including me) feel like we were in on a joke...
...general, I hasten to say, I'm a sucker for baby pictures. If I run into someone who has a small child and does not display pictures instantly, I immediately get suspicious. "Has the kid turned mean and ugly, or what?" I ask. Newborns, though, are quite a different matter. To put this as delicately as I can, newborn babies are not always beautiful...