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...tricky part of the White House's Y2K political problem will be telling everyone there's no need to stockpile canned food -- while being alarmist enough to prod business leaders into action. "The consequences of the millennium bug, if not addressed, could simply be a rash of annoyances, like being unable to use a credit card at the supermarket," Clinton said. But the worst-case scenario? He added: "It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service." Not to mention Vice President Gore's presidential ambitions...
...awkwardness of adolescence, including sexual stirrings. "That book was forbidden to me as a kid," Wolf says. "I'm hoping to give them a different perspective about sex, to expose them to this kind of subject matter before they find out about it themselves." Movies and television are a prod and a challenge to Wolf. In Grease, which is rated PG and was recently re-released, the character Rizzo "says something about 'sloppy seconds,' you know, the fact that a guy wouldn't want to do it with a girl who had just done it with another guy. There...
Lang would probably have had an easier time with my wife--or any woman--than with me or most men during the initial consultation. "Women come into my office with a list of concerns," he says. "I have to prod men to tell me what is worrying them about their health." As a result, a woman's physical tends to be more tailored to her worries. Women, for example, "recognize stress issues more readily than men," says Lang, allowing stress evaluation and counseling to be scheduled into the day, if needed...
...millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner...
...claiming attorney-client privilege. Ginsburg is arguing that Starr should be forced to honor an earlier immunity deal with Lewinsky. And Clinton lawyer David Kendall wants Johnson to plug grand jury leaks he says are coming from Starr. During Watergate, John Sirica used the same judicial perch to prod along the investigation of President Nixon. Court watchers familiar with Johnson's pro-government tilt wonder which way it will lead her: to favor the special prosecutor who formally represents the government, or the President he seems intent on bringing down...