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...FILL IN THE BLANKS Tired of having to type in your life story every time you want to book travel plans on the Web? You aren't the only one. More than 40% of Web users are loath to go to a site that makes them register. Thankfully, more and more sites seem to be paying attention to our gripes. Expedia.com just waived its registration page, which used to pop up before you could even use the site. Preview Travel nixed its, and the new Wal-Mart travel site never had one. Now you have to register only when...
First, mutual funds, including index funds, the most popular form of investment, own very few of these newly created billion-dollar stocks. The mutual funds, stung previously when they created single-focus Latin American funds and Asian funds, have been loath to initiate Internet-only mutuals. And judging by a scan of the holdings of the largest funds, they spent more time trying to imitate the old-line Standard & Poor's 500 index than mimic the hot stocks that individuals have chased successfully. Now they have to scramble to own these red-hot stocks and dump the laggards if they...
...returning the Golan to Syria, but as a demilitarized zone monitored by the U.S. or some other international authority. A deal that treats any movement of Syrian military hardware into that zone as an act of war may be acceptable to Israel's generals. Of course, many Israelis are loath to trust their Arab neighbors, and would just as soon hang on to all the real estate they can. But Barak holds a trump card: Israel continues to pay a heavy price in human life for its occupation of southern Lebanon, and the call for Israeli withdrawal is overwhelmingly popular...
...customary with science, the experts are loath to jump to conclusions until all the data is in and all the causes and effects are connected. Scientists almost universally agree that the earth has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit in this century. Some attribute that to the so-called greenhouse effect, caused by man-made gases that trap the sun's heat on the earth's surface, raising water and air temperatures. Some believe that the warming may be linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages...
...other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based) or dip into the Social Security trust fund. But they?re also loath to cut into programs that voters want, programs that Clinton can excoriate them for slicing up. So voil? ? the millennium just got a little longer...