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Score one for the bad guys. While U.S. authorities still hold that they have no credible reason to believe there'll be any New Year's terrorist catastrophes, cities are scaling back on their Y2K celebrations just in case. "This is already an unprecedented, unpredictable New Year's and we did not want to take chances with public safety," said Seattle mayor Paul Schell, announcing that the city has canceled a huge celebration planned for the area surrounding the Space Needle. The Y2K threat has also put a damper on a half-day celebration planned in Philadelphia, in which citizens...
...Sheets of paper, on average, used by each U.S. office worker a year...
ROSEBUD SAFETY TIPS For many kids, the best part of winter is a good sled ride down a snowy slope. To keep the thrill safe, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is urging parents to supervise the fun--and to put helmets on children under 12. Each year about 7,000 kids suffer head injuries in sledding crashes. Younger children are especially vulnerable because they have proportionally larger heads, higher centers of gravity and less developed coordination. For a brochure on how to sled safely, call...
...President Clinton signed last week, employees whose companies pay college expenses now have more time to complete their course work. The legislation extends employer-paid educational assistance that was to run out next May until Jan. 1, 2002. Employees can receive up to $5,250 a year tax-free for their undergraduate expenses, including tuition, books and fees. Companies typically provide the money as a re-imbursement for employees after a course has been completed. About 1.5 million U.S. workers are enrolled under the plan...
Their solution to this problem--based on Gilbert's chance encounter with Japanese culture at a London exhibition--turns out to be The Mikado. And Mike Leigh's movie about mounting that best of all G. & S. works turns out to be one of the year's more beguiling surprises. It is not at all the sort of thing one expects from Leigh, the very sober creator of films like Naked and Secrets and Lies, for it is basically the story--somewhat comic, somewhat desperate, very carefully detailed--of rehearsing and putting on the operetta...