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...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...
...coincidence that both candidates are running less on what they will do than on who they are. Riding home on Air Force One two weeks ago, Clinton chatted off the record for nearly two hours on everything from the new Redford movies, the pitfalls of instant information, the prospect of living past 100, the importance of cheap vacations to American culture, global warming, peach cobbler and the NCAA basketball playoffs...
...could grow to $1.2 trillion over 40 years. All three solutions would create different winners and losers. For example, the first plan would favor workers born before 1965. Despite such wrinkles, two factors promise change--the awareness among young voters that the current system will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment house is devising new financial instruments that it claims will yield a guaranteed minimum return--just what Congress might require...
...casinos have moved from being the private preserve of two states--Nevada and New Jersey--into the American mainstream. With 126 Native American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial companies argued for equal rights. So far, 24 states have legalized casinos, while 37 have embraced lotteries, lured by the prospect of easy money in hard fiscal times. And the games have begun to crossbreed: lottery agencies have added instant-cash video poker and keno games, racetracks have expanded into off-track betting, and grocery shops have installed slot machines. Overall, Americans gambled away more than $40 billion last year...
...nation European Union and third countries. The decision followed a period of indecision and retraction earlier this week as Europe and Britain reeled under the weight of consumer panic over "mad cow disease", a bovine brain sickness which may be linked to a similar illness in humans. The prospect of a ban has already devastated the England's cattle industry, reports TIME's Helen Gibson: "As national hamburger chains like McDonald's and Burger King canceled their British beef orders, cattle were left on the farm. Farmers who have tried to sell are unable to do so, but most...