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...exasperated man was laying out some dire math last week at a senior center in Rock Hill, S.C., as a morning crowd of silver heads nodded in empathy. The miracle drugs that keep his 94-year-old mother healthy, the man said, can cost $700 a month--far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today...
...wings. It's like that old boyfriend or girlfriend who won't go away. On Broadway now, you can see The Producers and The Graduate. (It used to be that only film stars returned to theater on the Great White Way; now entire films do.) Playing on the silver screen are remakes of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and the old TV mini-series The Bourne Identity. Our President is a revival of sorts, at least genetically. Come to think of it, the whole concept of remixing is a kind of musical cloning. Or in the case of Elvis, whose...
...Those kinds of objections explain why the war party is looking for a silver-bullet strategy-a lucky first strike on Saddam, say, or a manufactured coup by Iraqi dissidents-that would forestall an old-fashioned deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks. But almost no one in uniform thinks such dream schemes will work. One defense official puts it this way: "There's nobody in the Joint Chiefs who doesn't want Saddam gone yesterday. But no matter how much you want to do the silver bullet strike, you need a Plan B. And all the Plan...
There is a curious postcard on sale at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art at Medzilaborce, in northeastern Slovakia. It shows the American Pop artist pushing his bike down the town's slushy main street. With his trademark silver-white hair, Warhol looks slightly out of place amid the communist-era low-rises lining the street...
...Auto prices may be rolling downhill after the European Commission changed car-sale rules to increase competition. Dealers will soon be allowed to sell multiple brands and open showrooms across the E.U., where prices now can vary up to 50% for the same model. Silver Lining Fortunately, the London Stock Exchange hasn't been the only thing falling lately in Britain. Inflation also hit a 27-year low of 1.5% in June, making an interest rise by the Bank of England unlikely despite the skyrocketing cost of property. Where's Le Boeuf? The European Commission asked the European Court...