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...called E-money experiments that are popping up around the globe. The goal is to replace cash and checks with electronic transactions that cost just pennies to process. Citibank, a leader in this push for a cashless society, is developing what it calls an Electronic Monetary System that will permit consumers and companies to make payments electronically anywhere in the world. Visa, fresh off a test of 300,000 smart cards--plastic embedded with a cache of electronic cash--at the Atlanta Olympics, will soon launch similar projects in 14 other countries, including Canada, Australia and in Hong Kong...
Finally, he asked if we had a permit to put up the net. "A net-putting-up permit?" we said. "There's no such thing as a net-putting-up permit...
With his "economic package" actually losing him support, Dole swung at Clinton for a rise in drug use among youngsters and pushed a school-choice plan that would permit parents to send their children to private and parochial institutions. Whether those notions could have moved the dial will never be known, for as quickly as he raised them, Dole dropped them. He said Clinton had no core, and when that didn't work, he labeled him an old-fashioned liberal, and that didn't work either. Scandal was left, so Dole tried that, eventually lighting on foreign contributions...
Krauthammer's most vociferous critics demanded equal rights for all. "Evidently, gay Americans are to be kept around to work and pay taxes but lack those human qualities that would permit them to marry," wrote Steven M. Ferre, 32, a contract manager for a health-insurance firm in Washington. Ferre, who is gay and currently without a partner, has seen relationships fail because the logical next step--marriage--was not an option. "It's difficult to stay in a relationship if you can't get married," he says. "It becomes very easy to cut your losses and move...
...Wiesenthal staff members, who have held several long debriefing sessions with Leyden, have big plans for him: they have made arrangements for a laser surgeon to remove his tattoos, and this fall they hope to take him on a lecture tour at U.S. military bases, where Defense Department rules permit local commanders to decide whether to tolerate "passive" extremists in uniform. He has also offered to counsel troubled teenagers. "No one like this has ever walked through our doors," says the center's founder and dean, Rabbi Marvin Hier. "He's the real McCoy...