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...WorldCom piled on Enron and Tyco and Adelphia, as Martha fell alongside Kenny Boy, as the airlines talked bankruptcy and the baseball union talked strike, the mood of the nation soured. For the first time since Sept. 11, many national polls show that most voters think the country is going in the wrong direction...
Eager sightseers and slow-moving octogenarians alike seemed to get into the spirit—at least after the emcee shouted long enough at them to get into the mood...
...with negative ions. In case you have forgotten your high school chemistry, negative ions are charged particles released from H20 molecules when they collide. The air is normally full of them, and some claim the more there are, the merrier everyone is?that negative ions are natural mood enhancers: relieving stress and even inducing weight loss. Manufacturers in recent months have flooded the market with devices that supposedly boost the negative-ion count, ranging from air conditioners and toothbrushes to vacuum cleaners, underwear and dog collars. Manufacturers estimate total annual sales in Japan could grow to several billion dollars annually...
...should not expect U.S. action before the November elections. Another pushed the timetable into 2003. "No decisions are going to be made on Iraq for the foreseeable future," this official told Time. "It slips until next year." And intimates of the Bush team concede that the Republican party's mood on Iraq has been shifting under Bush's feet...
...electorate starts worrying, the most dangerous thing an incumbent can do is nothing. "Americans want solutions, not rhetoric," House G.O.P. conference chairman J.C. Watts warned Republicans in a July 24 memo. This explains why much of the election-year posturing that gridlocked Congress has evaporated as the national mood has headed south along with the stock market...