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...years old, she has lived in that town all her life. She is not unusual. Most people I meet are natives. When I ask one man if he has lived there all his life, he tells me, "Naw, I was born up the road two miles and lived there till...
...impetuous '80s are over. The shop-till-you-drop gilded decade of excess, Rolex, baby millionaires and their legions of wannabes has given way to a new age of moderation and caution. Dynasty, meet Roseanne. In its June survey, the Conference Board, which every month measures consumer confidence across the U.S., found people more worried than at any time since 1987. The economic shock therapy that began with the Crash of '87 and continues with the $500 billion savings and loan debacle has given Americans a new appreciation of limits...
...less, we want less, but we want less to be better," says Devin Schaumburg, 20, of Knoxville. "If we're just trying to pick up the pieces, put it all back together, is there a label for that?" That's a laudable notion, but don't hold your breath till they find their answer. "They are finally out there, saying 'Pay attention to us,' but I've never heard them think of a single thing that defines them," says Martha Farnsworth Riche, national editor of American Demographics magazine...
...convince the public that parental-consent laws are a sham. Pro-life and pro-choice forces in Congress pledge to wage the fight over funds for rape and incest victims again and again, every time Boxer or her allies attach a rider to a bill. "We'll debate this till we're blue in the face, and there will be blood all over the chamber," says Hyde. And despite the defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in Idaho, and perhaps Louisiana, the pro-life lobby will continue to press for recriminalizing abortion in all the states...
...best way to deal with a foreigner, any old-school Brit will tell you, is to shout at the blighter in English until he catches on. If he professes not to understand, just turn up the volume till he does. A man who doesn't speak English is a man who isn't worth speaking to. Robert Byron, the great traveler of the '30s who wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp...