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Just when it appeared he might permit NAFTA to die rather than risk having it dilute support for his health-care plan, Bill Clinton gathered three former Presidents to the White House last week and delivered a lectern-thumping speech on the job-creating virtues of free trade, the unparalleled productivity of the American worker and the irresistible winds of change in the global economy...
...they have acceded to the new vision for 42nd Street grudgingly, and insist that it is only a temporary recasting. But if Disney and other entertainment big boys become entrenched, if cash flows are positive, and if Americans fall in love with a reanimated 42nd Street, will New York permit dreary office hives to come in and spoil...
...Jersey, Vermont and half a dozen other states permit a lesbian to adopt her lover's child and become a second parent. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did so last Friday, allowing surgeons Susan Love and Helen Cooksey to adopt the five-year-old girl they have raised since birth. The child was conceived by Love via artificial insemination with sperm from a cousin of Cooksey's. Because of technicalities, the child's own mother had to adopt her for Cooksey to be made co-parent. Cases like this have led judges in several states to suggest that adoption laws...
...online services to households. Among other things, Murdoch wants to offer an electronic newspaper "where you'll be able to pull up something on a screen that looks like the front page of a paper" -- a longtime goal of the online industry. At the same time, technological advances could permit Delphi to transmit video images and voices into the vast Internet system...
...movie, we allow the author or director a certain latitude. We allow that conspiracies of which we have never heard actually run the world, or that DNA trapped in the stomachs of amber-coated insects can be used to create real-life dinosaurs from frog genes. These little lies permit us to be entertained by the author's imagination...