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...Worrying about the future is a major source of stress"--far more so than for their parents or grandparents. More than three-quarters of Xers say, "No matter what I plan for the future, when I finally get there, it's always something different." Some opt out of the rat race. "What seems like apathetic hedonism actually represents a fairly informed bet," American Demographics columnist Marc Spiegler wrote recently. "Why put up with the cubicled world's woes when its promised delayed gratification is an ever more dicey proposition?" The slogan on Eddie Bauer's shopping bags puts it succinctly...
However, like many Gen Xers who forswear the rat race, Smith seems seduced by it. Sure, he still lives in the Jersey 'burbs, with his View Askew Productions only a few blocks from his new condo in Red Bank. Sure, he's invested his profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives...
...nature-study lab and community center, has had no small part in the transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...
...whether we are making our way back from Lamont or rehearsal. And miraculously, Tommy's is busy every night until closing at three a.m. No self-respecting sober person frequents the Tasty, and Store 24's offerings are limited to Hostess cupcakes and Doritos. So we flock to a rat-hole where the workers make the pizza, handle your money and smoke cigarettes all at the same time...
...knows Harold Ickes was surprised to learn that he walked out of the White House in January with thousands of documents. In a White House where files have a way of getting lost in closets, Ickes was the compulsive pack rat, a man known for keeping Eugene McCarthy campaign records in his basement. One friend, when told last week that Ickes left with at least 2,400 pages, said only, "Uh...is that...