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...considering a new, value-added tax to pay for the $60 billion in reforms her team is contemplating. Just as millions of Americans prepared to file their income tax returns, a USA Today report quoted Shalala as saying that the health-care task force was examining some form of VAT in addition to Clinton's already announced plans for new energy taxes, higher sin taxes and rising top marginal rates. Coming two months after Clinton himself called the VAT a "radical" idea, the story could not have been more poorly timed...
...idea literally exploded out of my head. A comic strip called The Collective Intelligence of Crisco. Yeah. It would be a strip revolving around a twisted love triangle of the sentient, sexy vat of vegetable shortening, named Cris, a sensitive stick of Mazola margerine and the lovely Florence Henderson, Wesson oil spokesmodel. In addition to working through their various affairs of the heart, they would spend every free moment tirelessly fighting to free the world of lard...
...best entries are those that report on the activities of real people trying to live the cyberpunk life. For example, Mark Pauline, a San Francisco performance artist, specializes in giant machines and vast public spectacles: sonic booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed the air of Denmark to remind the citizenry of its Viking roots. When an explosion blew the thumb and three fingers off his right hand, Pauline simply had his big toe grafted where his thumb had been. He can pick things up again...
...woman recounts how on her first visit she and her husband made to II Panino the couple asked repeatedly for more sauce, until the cook finally placed a vat of it on their table. "And we finished it!" the woman exclaims...
...worth it? "It's not a solution to all earthquake problems, but there are a lot of practical applications," says Allan Lindh of the U.S. Geological Survey. "To have 30 seconds' warning would sound like a helluva idea to me if I worked near a sulfuric acid vat." Japan has already built advanced systems to shut down nuclear power plants, cut the gas flow from public utilities and issue tsunami alerts. Similar systems could divert incoming aircraft, warn rescue workers of aftershocks and minimize damage to computer, telecommunication and financial data networks...