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...history of the Clinton presidency is and always has been the history of the Clinton marriage, which is why the distinction between public and private in this presidency has always been messy. From the start their union was a vessel not only of love but of ambition, a shortcut for two stars in a hurry to reach heaven. She signed on to be wife and business partner in the hope that they could have great fun and do great things by pooling her discipline, his charisma, her vision, his guts. And there was always the risk that if one stumbled...
...large numbers of fertile geniuses are living in the same places. The Redmond offspring won't all be geniuses of course; someone has to marry the beautiful people in marketing. But many of the Redmond kids will be frighteningly smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter and start working younger. It's possible that the high-tech companies of the future could be managed entirely via inter-fetus telepathy. Some entrepreneurs will cash out their stock options and retire before they are born...
...probability of a weakening dollar means Americans who move money into Euroland now might lock in exchange-rate profits. "There is a case for diversifying your portfolio into a currency area that provides an alternative to the U.S.," says Merrill Lynch's Bowers. "But there's no shortcut: you still have to find good companies." In the current European climate, the most promising sectors include consumer products, distribution, high tech, health care, insurance and telecommunications...
...center of the Year 2000 mess is fairly simple. In what's proving to be a ludicrously shortsighted shortcut, many system programmers set aside only two digits to denote the year in dates, as in 06/15/98 rather than 06/15/1998. Trouble is, when the computer's clock strikes 2000, the math can get screwy. Date-based equations like 98 - 97 = 1 become 00 - 97 = -97. That can prompt some computers to do the wrong thing and stop others from doing anything...
...message taken home by millions of E.R. viewers is that ultra-rapid detox is a shortcut to drug withdrawal. And that's a problem, say many doctors. They fear it will result in a stampede of new patients to the controversial and still experimental procedure. Ultrarapid detox, they charge, has not been adequately studied and is often promoted by medical entrepreneurs who make exaggerated claims and operate out of hotel rooms and storefronts...