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Food for 121,124,031 families of four for a year in the U.S. 588 Space Shuttles 12 Bill Gateses 62.5 billion School Library Books Health Insurance for 44 million Americans for 10 years $3,664.50 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. Texas (gross state product $600 billion) and Illinois (GSP $400 billion...
...excuse. And that goes for kids too, which is why the Arizona Bar Foundation is pioneering a website designed to teach youngsters about the justice system. The site, www.lawforkids.org offers kid-friendly explanations, personal stories from youngsters in trouble, answers to questions ranging from state graffiti laws to federal child labor laws, and links for help and information. The site already averages 38,000 hits a month from across the country, and will soon add audio testimony from kids about their experiences with...
...other product category is so sweetly seductive and yet so baffling as home theater. Not too long ago, all you had to do was buy the largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some...
Washington, however, is erring a little more on the side of caution. The government has built and unveiled last week a $50 million command center to monitor potential Y2K problems. The State Department has offered its diplomats in former Russian republics a ticket home for the duration. The Federal Reserve is printing up an extra $50 billion in currency. This, you might conclude, is going to be one heck of a blizzard...
...China? Don't ask. Although significant progress has been made this year, the country's Y2K working group reports nagging trouble with a lack of funds and an even more severe lack of understanding. Thousands of state-owned firms are still fumbling for solutions. The State Department also warns Beijing-bound travelers to be wary of possible blackouts and food shortages...