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...opposite of what online shopping was supposed to be like. Amazon is not a depopulated, Logan's Run kind of store. The site allows readers to post their opinions about books, to rate products, to swap anecdotes. As you sit there reading, say, a literate and charming book review from Bangladesh, the real power of the Amazon brand comes home. It is a site that is alive with uncounted species of insight, innovation and intellect. No one predicted that electronic shopping could possibly feel this alive. If it is a sign of an e-world yet to come, a place...
...death-row inmates to life in prison. Yet Thompson's brand of biological determinism sets off alarms for many. "The idea that you're simply born bad is an evil misconception," says Peter Fonagy, director of the Child and Family Center at the Menninger Clinic, who has done a review of conduct-disorder studies for the British government. "We have to look at intervening early and how that can help change antisocials...
...Paul Gray's review of historian Susan Dunn's Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light [BOOKS, Dec. 6]: as a Frenchman living in the U.S., I have had the opportunity to reflect on the respective merits and shortcomings of the two countries' revolutions. Dunn does not render sufficient justice to the particular challenges of the French Revolution. While the Reign of Terror was a sad phase in French history, it would probably have been difficult to avoid. The lessons drawn about the later emergence of Napoleon can also be considered from two perspectives: while some consider it an end point...
...Erotic Personalities of the Millennium chosen by readers of the British Erotic Review: No. 1, Marilyn Monroe; No. 4, Margaret Thatcher...
...YOUR ACCOUNT At tax time next spring, be sure to review your 1999 medical expenses. Self-employed individuals and employees of companies with 50 or fewer workers have until April 15 to make tax-free contributions to medical savings accounts, which can be used with high-deductible health plans to pay medical costs. "You want to make sure you've contributed the maximum allowable," says Jack Strayer of the National Center for Policy Analysis. The ceilings range from $2,250 for individuals to $4,500 for families...