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...little to the American Hollywood-spoof genre, from The Larry Sanders Show to Action and back to the movie Network. And some Britcoms, like the wacky-priests' caper Father Ted, prove the Brits can make implausible, laugh-track-saturated work just as well as we, but with poorer production values. The best of the offerings, though, are not just rougher and often saltier than U.S. broadcast-network standards permit; they're genuinely surprising...
...available until January 2002, the currency has proved a loser on foreign-exchange markets, where it is traded electronically. Continental bankers hoped the euro would compete with the dollar as an international currency of choice. Instead, the euro has fallen more than 20% against the dollar, a poorer showing than even the most pessimistic predictions. Betting on what kind of money people want to use is a dangerous way to invest...
...base receive extra compensation to help defray their housing costs. But the Department of Agriculture, which runs the food-stamp program, counts that off-base allowance as income. Troops who live on a military installation and thus don't get that housing allowance are several thousand dollars a year poorer on paper than their compatriots who live off base. It's little wonder then that 60% of the troops who are eligible for food stamps live in military housing, though only a third of the force lives in government quarters...
...thrown so far out of kilter again. But there's no telling if the earth--already worked to exhaustion feeding the 6 billion people currently here--can take much more. People in the richest countries consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, and as poorer nations push to catch up, pressure on the planet will keep growing. "An ecologist looks at the population size relative to the carrying capacity of Earth," says Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "Looking at it that way, things are much worse than we expected them to be 20 years...
...administration's opposition to the World Bank proposal, however, comes at a tense time, when the gap between the richest and the poorest countries is rapidly increasing. Poorer nations blame this disparity on the U.S. and other highly developed countries, which have left them far behind in the race towards economic globalization. Thus, the new trend reflected in both the World Bank proposal and the African trade bill, both of which aim to increase exports from the world's poorest countries, must be applauded. Loans--the standard approach to foreign aid--often prove ineffective at best and detrimental at worst...