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...If??there's one thing that voters in red and blue states could agree on this election year, it's that satire was king. From David Letterman's monologues and a rejuvenated Saturday Night Live to the proliferation of spoofy websites, even the most minor campaign flubs were endlessly lampooned. Jon Stewart and his gang popped up at both conventions as well as the debates, and The Daily Show became the most trusted name in fake news. The South Park crew turned everyone from Kim Jong Il to Michael Moore into puppets for its movie Team America...
...If??Critical Condition, the new book by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele [Oct. 11], tells us anything about the health-care crisis, it's that anyone involved can make a buck off someone else's illness. The best way to address the nation's health-care woes is not to create another government agency but to change our illness-based system to a wellness-based system that would reward Americans for staying healthy. Every health-care professional must make a stronger effort to get our children, overstressed adults and seniors into the vast array of wellness, nutrition...
...Mertes of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, who is such a computer enthusiast that he allows no paper to be seen in his office (though he does admit to keeping a few files in the drawer of an end table): "We're talking when?not if???the electronic cottage will emerge...
...inflation can be held in check?a big if???the outlook past the 1979 slowdown seems bright. Greenspan sees a trend throughout the industrial world toward more conservative tax, spending and money-supply policies aimed at spurring investments. As a result, he believes, the U.S. and other industrial powers have a good chance of coming out of "the malaise of the 1970s" into a long era of moderate but steady and less inflationary growth in the 1980s. Eckstein foresees some danger, but a rather pleasant one. Once the slowdown is over, he thinks, the economy will expand so rapidly through...
...democratic leaders choose the correct policies and explain them forthrightly?a distressingly big if???the prospects are not all bleak. Enough remains of Adam Smith's self-adjusting market to give the policymakers some assistance. If, as seems likely, the recent recession has broken the force of inflation, the slowing of price rises will probably encourage consumers later this year to begin buying many more cars, appliances and other goods. Then businessmen who have been zealously cutting inventories might find themselves with too little stock to maintain sales and would be forced to step up production...