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AIRLINE TRAVEL What bothers us most about flying, according to an exclusive poll for TIME and CNN Big Not a big Problem problem...
...this the face of 21st century activism? The '60s-era left was marginalized by two giddily capitalist decades of leveraged buyouts, Web IPOs and rising tides that lifted the biggest ships. That may have changed last Tuesday, when masked youths started smashing windows in Seattle. In one red-hot CNN Minute, the eclectic concerns of a planetful of protesters--environmentalism, Tibet, child labor, human rights--crystallized right where most of them didn't want to be: beneath the anarchist banner...
...that foreign policy and judicial deliberations are held in secret: to insulate the proceedings from political pressures. It does not deserve its newfound position as a poster child for globalization and the focus for all anti-corporate discontent, including such extraneous causes as the "Free Mumia" signs filmed by CNN...
...whipped up into such a millennial frenzy that anything would sell. Stores stocked up on survival supplies. Tour companies began arranging fantastically expensive tours to the Pacific for customers who want to see the first lights of the year 2000. Consumers reported widespread champagne hoarding. Rumor was that CNN was busy composing the mother of all theme jingles for their millennium coverage...
...story appeared in newspapers across the country and on CNN...