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...less mealymouthed defense of the American character would begin by acknowledging its historical roots in the behavior of the Anglo settlers of 200 and 300 years ago -- what are known today as Wasps. The Ur-Wasps brought with them a load of cultural baggage, which they unpacked when they arrived. Their load included a politics of natural right, derived from English Whigs; Protestant churches, mostly Bible reading and "low" in ritual and theology; and a near religious belief in the virtues of working hard and getting rich. These traits reinforced one another: pulpits proliferated under nonauthoritarian government, and the work...
...more creative photographers will have the chance to load Photo CD images into home computers and turn their Macs and PCs into electronic darkrooms, where they can create studio-quality pictures that might be printed on color printers, turned into Christmas cards or sent to friends and relatives over ordinary phone lines. Adventurous types will even be able to manipulate the digitized images, pixelediting crazy Uncle Harry out of a shot, for example, or grafting his head onto Fido's body...
...Honey, load the Winnebago! Proprietors hope the gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...unless I changed one of the classes I'd written down. The long and short of if is it cost me and additional 30 bucks: $15 because I had to drop a class, and $15 more because I screwed up the bubble dots when I changed my course load...
...experts, however, expect the 1988 legislation to solve the welfare mess -- or even to come close. First of all, it will affect only a fraction of the welfare population: the act requires 20% of the eligible case load to enroll in the program by 1995; since parents with disabilities and preschool children are exempted, only an estimated 1 in 10 recipients will ever take part...