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...satirized Miami Beach dance party, prompted even the state's liberal teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, to endorse McBride. "Reno just didn't convey a specific message on the issues that matter this year," says the FEA's president, Maureen Dinnen. McBride's profile also got an unintended lift from Bush: preferring to face Reno in November, the Governor's campaign ran attack ads against McBride that backfired when they catapulted his name recognition...
...based recovery. While the paralysis community--McDonald included--believes that the road to a cure runs at least partly through the lab (see box), McDonald is convinced that a vigorous program of exercise and electrical muscle stimulation may also help awaken the nervous system. Reeve showed McDonald his finger lift, dismissing it as a "party trick." McDonald saw it as more...
...assume the French left was still in power. Last week Seillière?president of France's main employers' organization?sternly warned the government to re-examine proposals that "serve neither economic growth nor employment." He also denounced the government's hesitancy to roll back job-protection measures and lift overtime limits linked to the 35-hour workweek. Seillière's criticism of France's nominally business-friendly government was remarkable, since he is not only the nation's leading lobbyist of market liberalization, but also the man who inspired the economic program that helped sweep the conservatives into...
...significant support. Two cantons, Zurich and Aargau, have voted to back the initiative, and several other cantons are considering throwing their weight behind it too. With polls conducted earlier this year showing that three in four Swiss support banking secrecy, any attempt to persuade the citizens to lift it "doesn?t stand a ghost of a chance," President Kaspar Villiger told a meeting of the Swiss Employers? Association in June?though other polls suggest there may be some movement in public opinion...
...George W. Bush offers the particulars of his fitness routine: 3-mile runs six days a week, plus strengthening and stretching exercises. He says the workouts provide much-needed stress relief and urges Americans to follow his example. The magazine even critiques Bush's running form (nice knee lift but chin too high). The article continues a storied sporting tradition of athletic counsel from the Oval Office. --By Rebecca Winters