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...involving Democrats and Republicans, lawmakers and Presidents have devised energy plans that add up to no plan at all--not deliberately but by default. In pursuit of different agendas, competing interests tend to cancel one another out over time, leaving the nation with no coherent direction on energy. Lawmakers launch programs to develop alternative-energy supplies but later quietly cut or eliminate the funding so there are no realistic alternative sources. They enact legislation offering incentives to stimulate crude-oil production in the U.S., when the politicians know--or should know--that the programs will...
Seventeen itself has already entered the spa market. Last year it licensed its name to help launch the Seventeen studio.spa.salon www.seventeenspa.com) a day spa in Plano, Texas, which offers facials, massages, waxing and an Internet cafe; additional outlets are planned for other cities. Whereas Seventeen's spa was designed with teens in mind, most day spas have been able to welcome young people without sacrificing a sophisticated aura and clientele; they merely modify the treatments they offer to adolescents. At the Tiffani Kim Institute in Chicago, Hannah Song, 17, is receiving a Growing Pains Relief massage. "I'm stressed," says...
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon were the leaders in the spotlight last week as the Palestinian and Israeli Prime Ministers shared a warm grip-and-grin to launch peace talks. But sidelined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat retains considerable clout and wants to prove he is indispensable. Abbas, who replaced Arafat at the negotiating table after being named Prime Minister, has secured a cease-fire from Palestinian militant groups. That prompted Israel to begin withdrawals from towns in the West Bank and Gaza. But Abbas faces opposition within his own Fatah faction and must crack down on renegades...
...their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part of a rising tide of opposition to the reforms planned by the government of conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac. In May and June, public-sector workers launched crippling nationwide strikes, and a week ago Corsicans narrowly rejected a referendum intended to launch Raffarin's effort to decentralize power to regional capitals. But as arts workers took France's beloved (and lucrative) festival season hostage to protest cutbacks in their unemployment benefits, summer itself seemed under siege - and Raffarin...
...heart out on Larry King, which I wouldn't mind doing. You just can't do that--not in this situation." MARTHA STEWART, domestic diva, on her reputation-shattering battle with the Justice Department over securities-fraud charges, on the eve of the launch of her new food magazine...