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...exactly like your mother. But the message was very down-home: Start saving for a rainy economy. Greenspan urged Congress, in crafting the 1999 budget, to keep the tax-cut goodies out -- and sock the extra money away until the impact of the Asian crisis on U.S. prosperity can be fully appreciated...
JESSICA'S FEAT Sock It to Me brings comfort to thousands...
...takes voice and piano lessons, and performs with a kids' musical group. (Her dream is to be the next Bette Midler.) A freshman at Salem High School, she has joined a literary club and is trying out for the golf team. On top of all this, there is the Sock It to Me campaign...
...older brother Jeffrey started Sock It to Me five years ago to earn a Boy Scout badge. Nurse Karin Tackett, a next-door neighbor and friend of the Burris family, gave him the idea: homeless people are hard on socks; for hygienic and health reasons, they are always in need of new pairs. If Jeffrey would collect the socks, Tackett would have the Georgia Nurses Foundation, which treats the homeless, distribute the socks at shelters in nearby Atlanta and Athens. Helped by Jessica and parents Herb and Patty Burris, Jeffrey got his badge. But Jessica decided the campaign had merit...
...bears little resemblance to her health-care crusade. The woman who once traded put-downs with House majority leader Dick Armey on Capitol Hill now makes her point by tousling the curls of a toddler in a day-care center for hospital workers in Florida, or cooing over a sock dog made for her by children in an after-school program at the Marine base in Quantico, Va. Even her wardrobe has been transformed: the powerful teals and reds of her health-care days have been replaced by Oscar de la Renta pastels, with pumps to match...