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...know one another and raise the children as an extended family. For now, Johnson was even saying she wouldn't sue the hospital that may have caused her misery: "Money can't change the fact that my child was switched," she sighs. "I live on a thousand dollars a month. Money would help, but it don't mean anything to me." At a time when legal battles over a stained Gap dress have paralyzed Washington, the cooperative spirit of these families a few miles to the south was refreshing...
...even come to acquire an actual psychological label, "lottery fantasy syndrome," a term coined by Los Angeles therapist Robert Butterworth to explain the depression that occurs when ticket buyers pin all their hopes on winning, and don't. "It doesn't matter if you spend a dollar or a thousand dollars. You can be hit with lottery-fantasy syndrome as a result of simply buying a ticket and living your dream before it actually occurs," says Butterworth. When people don't win, he explains, "depression and apathy can set in, and life can seem even worse than before you bought...
Washington, D.C., like the rest of the nation marked the occasion with concerts, parades and fireworks--only more so. While the official estimate in area papers was "several hundred thousand," that's kind of like saying Mt. Everest is big, or Antarctica is cold, or that the Federal Government has a bureaucracy. By the start of the fireworks at nightfall, the Mall was covered by a sea of people extending from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the steps of the Capitol nearly three miles away...
Between the coffee and water, my friends and I made our way to the base of the Washington Monument to visit the wall of Sani-johns. Stretching far and wide, the off-white rows looked like the horizontal counterpart to the more upstanding monument. Unfortunately, with nearly five-hundred thousand thirsty visitors each drinking ice-cold bottles of water (nearly one million dollars into the US economy!), even a horizontal monument couldn't accommodate the frantic crowds that gathered...
...capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following three straight years of losses. Ten thousand dollars' worth of Yahoo purchased at IPO in 1996 would be worth $1.68 million today. "Investors are treating the Internet as if it were the next television industry," says economist Lawrence White of New York University's Stern School of Business...