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...while back, about 10 weeks into my Army career, I finally came up with a nice pithy answer to give drill sergeants when they asked me why I had signed up. "Fun and profit," I'd say, with the slightest hint of a grin. They never smiled back, and now I'm maybe finding out why: However much like a G.I. Joe fantasy camp (complete with pay and free food) the military may sometime seem, there is always a Bummer coming...
...might want to put off that SUV trip until the fall. Although an impending international agreement means cheaper gasoline appears to be on the way, it may be late summer before it arrives at the pumps. In the strongest hint yet that crude oil prices - currently at their highest levels since the Gulf War - will soon be on the way down, three of the world's top oil-producing nations reached a tentative agreement Thursday to increase production. The announcement by Venezuela, Mexico and Saudi Arabia appeared to be both a concession to the Clinton administration - U.S. energy secretary Bill...
Seth gets good at the game under Jim's tutelage. By which we mean, of course, bad. But not irredeemable. Can that be a hint of remorse we see lurking in his eyes as he devastates the life savings and the marriage of an innocent wholesale grocer? Can that be a hint of relief we sense in him when the feds close in with their offer of immunity if he rats the whole place out? Yes, and yes again...
...There was no hint that Kathy could be elected," she said...
Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...