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...picks up her Spanish newspapers on the Web. She's highly paid but not devoted to wealth; this summer she'll begin a five-month hiatus when she'll rollerblade and study photography. In short, a typical 20-something European. Responding to questions from a Time poll measuring the mood of these peripatetic adventurers, she says globalization "gives me the opportunity to work...
Jeff Skilling, CEO of Houston energy giant Enron, admits he's not in a great mood. He's just come out of a spinning class, part of his training for the MS150 Houston-to-Austin bike ride in April to benefit multiple sclerosis. Boy, is he hurting. But the real pain was the mid-morning peek at the markets Tuesday. Ouch. Enron (ENE) is trading around $60 a share - less than half what the company thinks it's worth. "Between the equity markets and the spinning class, I'm not in a great mood," says Skilling...
...Natural Resources Minister, Hugh Byrne, called Britain "the leper of Europe" for not getting a hold on the virus before it spread abroad. And a farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...could be a dreary time aboard Mir, especially for those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...offer a provisional list, if not Oscar-worthy, at least engagingly shelfish. I have been in the mood for spirited stuff, which may explain the choices below. Some thoughts...