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...Eugene Linden is the author of "The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability." His website is eugenelinden.com...
...that Bush tried to throw gays and lesbians in his State of the Union Address may be most insulting of all. The same moral tradition that excludes us from marriage, Bush explained, “also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God’s sight.” Even though our community would profane the sanctity of marriage, apparently we can still hold our heads high because we have dignity and value. Here’s a news flash, Mr. President: Treating us with dignity and value would mean using the words...
...industry's guardian angel is slow technology. Seasoned downloaders on a broadband connection generally need eight hours or more to download a film. But 18 months from now, it may take only 2 1/2 hours, according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with sophisticated sight and sound in seconds and have it in your library, you're not going to buy that in a DVD store. Anyone with even a paltry understanding of human nature understands that," says Jack Valenti, head of the M.P.A.A...
...hour later I was naked on my bathroom floor, shivering, unable to breathe, close to vomiting and without a friend in sight. Maybe things would have worked out better if, on my first lap, a group of probably well-meaning guys hadn’t said, “One, Two … Three!!” and then doused me with a bucket of freezing-cold water. Maybe stuff would have been okay if I had remembered to bring a bathrobe, or if I hadn’t been trampled by the freshman crew team one minute into...
...mess, and no one quite knows where it is going. "This happens in a global economy," says Sigalla, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, with a sigh. In the meantime, tell your kids to keep those McDonald's wrappers out of sight at the border. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Pat Dawson/Billings, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Rita Healy/Denver and Noah Isackson/Chicago