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...brow burns. My shorts shrink. My toes turn over in their sockets. If I'm lucky, I pass...
...Siebert, president of Germany's Kiel Institute of World Economics, predicted "roughly 3%" growth for the economy of the 15-nation European Union this year. But Siebert was worried that "the key question for Germany, France and Italy is whether they can get on a higher growth path" to shrink their high levels of unemployment. The Continent's major weakness, he said, was a comparative lack of private investment, which grew in Germany at one-quarter the U.S. rate over the past five years. A huge German corporate tax cut proposed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder would make a big difference...
...spread out and live or work anywhere, the green consciousness will urge a contrasting densification, to conserve open space. The reconciliation of these opposing trends will define the suburb of the future. As the vastness of cyberspace increasingly satisfies the craving for more space, the house and yard will shrink to a more supportable size; when people can find their privacy in the virtual world, those wasteful "setbacks" between neighbors will become less important. Cyberspace will, at the same time, become the arena for conspicuous consumption, relieving the home and front lawn of that responsibility. Meanwhile, the physical neighborhood will...
...today he calls himself "a proud conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and my favorite, Theodore Roosevelt." But Reagan and Roosevelt represent very different traditions. Reagan passed tax cuts for the rich (McCain voted for them); Roosevelt called for a social safety net and graduated income tax to shrink the gap between rich and poor. And that sounds like McCain lately. "I'm not giving tax cuts for the rich," he says. Roosevelt's progressive-era reforms helped create government regulations; Reagan wanted to ease them. McCain again takes from both, and has not figured out how to reconcile...
JOHN ROCKER Bigoted barbs send Atlanta Brave to shrink. And we don't care if he ever gets back...