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...Which is not to say anyone besides accountants will notice. The trick is simply to spend $12 billion or so in a phantom month between fiscal 2000 (the year currently being budgeted) and fiscal 2001. That, folks like Specter are hoping, will be enough to cover a few more necessaries without violating the letter of the 1997 agreement. The spirit of that deal lies in tatters, of course; creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even...
...hopefully, unlike Seth Mnookin, you will spend the next four years here awake, alert and learning...
UNIFORMS ARE IN So enthusiastic are American families about uniforms that this year they will spend $1.5 billion on them--triple what they spent just two years ago. By themselves, says Goldman, "school uniforms are not the answer to higher achievement or to closing the gap between minority and majority students." But a change in dress, particularly to a uniform, can have numerous positive effects. Students may become more self-confident and self-disciplined, less judgmental of other students, better able to resist peer pressure and concentrate on schoolwork. Jean Hartman of Long Beach, Calif., was once an opponent...
There have been few arguments for corporal punishment as strong as this unintentionally depressing dramedy of domestic self-absorption. But it's hard to say who could use it most: the casually amoral kids, who spend half the show delivering know-it-all voiceovers? The whiny parents? The sex-talkin' grandma? Actually, it may be the show's makers, who have piled on a media-studies dissertation's worth of trendy fourth-wall-breaking, belabored pop references and defensive, reflexive asides: "I know what you're thinking," goes one. "This is another one of those smart-ass shows where...
...full 30% of this year's Harvard Business School graduates are joining venture-capital or high-tech firms, up from 12% just four years ago. "The extended period of prosperity has encouraged people to behave in ways they didn't behave in other times--the way people spend money, change jobs, the quit rate, day trading, and people really thinking they know more about the market than anyone else," says Peter Bernstein, an economic consultant and author of the best-selling Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. "It takes a particular kind of environment for all these things...