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...charge that Washington under the Clinton-Gore years has become a do-nothing bickerfest, in large part because he refuses to highlight the administration's litany of achievements. Democrats, both inside and outside campaign circles, say they are perplexed by a move that should be as natural as King Arthur taking Excalibur from the stone. "I mean, can we let it soak in that we've had the best economy in the history of the world for two minutes before having to say we're not satisfied?" says one Democratic strategist, sighing. By late last week it was an exasperated...
...community computing start-ups let participants donate a portion of their computational cycles to pet biomedical charities. People who sign up with the San Diego-based firm Entropia, for instance, can allot part of their computer's time to the FightAIDS@home project, which uses distributed computing to help Arthur Olson's lab at the Scripps Research Institute search for new anti-AIDS drugs. Others enroll participants in raffles for free airline tickets or cash prizes. Apparently, virtue has its price, even for computers with time on their hands...
Adolescence can last until age 25 or 30 these days, observes Arthur Kovacs, a psychologist in Santa Monica, Calif. "There are false career starts," he explains, "trying out relationships, lying fallow between jobs." He suggests that parents try to "accommodate the anxiety" of their kids and keep the stuff until they're in their late 20s--or at least acknowledge their feelings by saying, "I wish I could do this...
...society a murderer gets more compassion than a person who has led an exemplary life and becomes terminally ill." MARVIN C. ARTHUR Las Vegas...
...TIME: Not sure. But I am sure you?re familiar with "shopgirl movies" of the '30s and '40s: "Bachelor Mother" with Ginger Rogers, "Employees? Entrance" with Loretta Young, "The Devil and Miss Jones" with Jean Arthur and "The Women," where Joan Crawford plays a character very much like the rapacious Lisa in "Shopgirl...