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...wonder they didn't seem to care much either way. (A buck says Tina doesn't give one thin dime of her tiny after-tax, after-house haul to charity, and good for her.) By the end of it all, one wonders how many of the show's viewers cared either...
...media need to understand is that it's not the President's job, or prerogative, to define the term for them. So far, it seems that the "troops" will cross that line in the mainstream media once the White House, or a substantial number of congresspeople, decide to haul the "h"-bomb out of their rhetorical arsenals. Or once somebody in some newsroom finally cracks open a dictionary...
...Philippines may well need a moral revival. Though illegal, live sex acts still grind away in Manila's sleazy bar districts. Video porn is easily available, and far cheaper than a movie ticket. The President's men recently banned pornographic videos on long-haul buses, but nothing has been done to halt the practice of provincial theaters to creatively splice a few minutes of hard-core porn into their main features. Films such as Live Show, which tries to explore the poverty behind sexual degradation, may actually serve to diminish the audience for pornography...
...that the conversation has changed to more humane topics, how will it affect the economy? During the past month, consumer confidence has shaken off the worst of the recession blues, according to studies by the University of Michigan and the Conference Board. Over the long haul, prudent consumers who feel optimistic about the future could help build a stronger foundation for the economy. For one thing, the U.S. personal-savings rate, which dropped from 9% in the mid-1970s to a low of 2.3% in late 1987, is now about 4% and climbing. That will provide a larger pool...
Around the same time, mad medicine began making its way into Do It Yourself Happy Homes. It had originally been the drug of choice for long-haul truck and bus drivers, but during the go-go '90s, it evolved into the working man's and woman's preferred intoxicant, gradually becoming more popular among Thailand's underclass than heroin and eventually replacing that opiate as the leading drug produced in the notorious Golden Triangle--the world's most prolific opium-producing region--where Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Laos come together. While methamphetamines had previously been sold either in powdered...