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...China from Beijing. From the air, Mongolia looks like one huge paddock. Smoothed grasslands that cover an area three times the size of France are punctuated by an occasional group of gers, the circular tents of grubby white felt that many Mongols call home. You'll need a four-wheel drive once out of town. Most people take pre-arranged tours but Karakoram Expeditions can fix transport, guides and horses for independent travelers. Call...
...that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
Sitting behind the wheel of his Lincoln, wearing wraparound shades and a deep melanoma scar on his face, John McCain looks like a B-movie hitman. As a matter of fact, he is trying to kill something: Washington's seamy money culture. The Arizona Senator has just finished an event with a 1,500-lb. pig named Rootie, his accomplice in an annual unveiling of the pork hidden in the federal budget. Now he is tearing the wrong way up a one-way drive into the Capitol for a press conference with conservative Blue Dog Democrats supporting his effort...
...finally answers, "Yup. Just the wheel," as he points to his carry-on suitcase...
Other tests are both hard to use and unnecessary. Take, for example, those devices that measure body fat. Just hold the device like a steering wheel, one brand promises, and in a matter of seconds it will send an electrical pulse through your body and spit out your body-fat percentage. But the instruction booklet lists eight conditions--including swelling, pregnancy and even a cold or the flu--that will produce inaccurate results. Anyway, who besides competitive body builders really needs to keep such close tabs on body fat? The rest of us should be more concerned about the number...