Word: readerly
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...politicos looking for background reading, try Jimmy Carter's childhood memoir "An Hour Before Daylight." And the love-it-or-hate-it attack on the Clinton administration's approach to China, "The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America" by Bill Gertz" was sent in by a reader who also recommends "Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department" by David Limbaugh...
...Freezy McShake, you don't want to fool around with old-fashioned bills and coins, do you? After a year of testing, burger titan McDonald's will roll out a new cashless payment system in 400 Chicago-area stores. Wave your McDonald's Speedpass over a special reader--based on the same technology that powers highway tollbooth passes--and your tab will be automatically added to your credit-card bill. Now if only Ronald had a fat-free French fry system...
TIME talked to the nation's First Reader about what's she's reading, who she's swapping books with, and why she sometimes has to ask the president to turn off the light and go to sleep. Her report...
...Smart books will not be allowed to change their plots except for the names of characters and geographic locations which, by personalizing, might make the book more enjoyable to the reader. The names of soft drinks and other products that have paid fees to be in the book may not be changed...
...Smart textbooks that adjust their material to always make the reader feel very intelligent, or very patriotic, will be used with great caution until further research is done...