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...room befuddled--and mentioned no issues. The press ripped him for it. The next day, as he settled into the back of a black SUV, where Bloomberg radio was playing and a Bloomberg magazine was tucked into a seat pocket, Bloomberg dismissed those stories. "As long as they spell my name right, fine," he says with a shrug. "I've got to learn the issues, learn how to dialogue, learn the jargon," he admits. Former Mayor Ed Koch thinks Bloomberg is admitting too much. "That's the wrong thing to say," sighs Koch. "Running for mayor...
...Slow down. When you're far from home without another adult to spell you, taking your time is safer--and sometimes more fun--than rushing to your destination. New Yorker Mary Farrell, a single mom, says her seven- and 10-year-old sons still remember the rest stop they took on their way to Vermont a couple of years ago. They spent two hours by a stream, throwing rocks and watching caterpillars...
...nice to learn that exercising our mental muscles may help stave off Alzheimer's. After we have created a generation of folks who need pocket calculators to balance their checkbooks, computers with spell-check to write letters and cash registers that tell how much change to give back to customers, now you tell us that using our brains is good for us? Duh! TIMOTHY TAYLOR WEBB Redding, Conn...
...sense of the word, but it has a full keyboard and a pink-and-lavender mouse (with matching mouse pad), and it talks in that inimitable Barbie voice--it sounds like Britney Spears huffing helium. The B-Book comes preloaded with 50 educational games,including Search 'n' Spell, Zoo Clues and, uh, Shop 'til You Drop...
...purpose of sanctions. The Europeans and others believe that whatever the formal explanations, Washington intends to keep sanctions in place until Saddam is out of power - a position most Security Council members refuse to endorse. So the U.S. will be under pressure, particularly from the Europeans, to more clearly spell out the steps Baghdad could take to bring sanctions to an end. (And overthrowing Saddam is not going to be one of them, given that sanctions are a U.N. rather than a U.S. affair...