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There's something pretty weird going on at www.usmint.gov. Thousands of people, most of them surely white Americans, are telling the U.S. Mint which of six images of an American Indian woman they want on a new coin. The woman is Sacjawea, the Shoshone slave who accompanied Merriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 journey across the Pacific Northwest. The coin is the new gold-colored, quarter-sized dollar piece, which will be minted next fall and which may replace the dollar bill within a few years...
...know it's not nice to mock an eating disorder, particularly one that's been vigorously denied. Fortunately, someone else did it for us. In its year-end issue, the normally obsequious TV Guide did a takeoff on an ad for Altoids, the ubiquitous mint, starring CALISTA FLOCKHART. Never mind, Ally. Life ain't all roses for self-described "fat girl" actress Camryn Manheim either. Is INSTYLE the only irony-free magazine left...
With consumer spending driving the economy's bus, it made sense for Time Inc. to mint MONEY magazine in 1972--but not without furious internal debate. Some higher-ups despised the title, if not the whole concept, as hawking greed. Circulation was a hard slog at first, and MONEY came within an inch of being shut down at least twice in its difficult early years. But by the late '70s, a focus on how-people-like-us-can-succeed lifted readership--and profits...
...mint: (adj.) of high quality, like "money." "That suit is mint...
...three-year bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...