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...fear is bad for the economy, patriotism is good for it, and so is the sheer simplifying philosophics of survival. How many petty problems seem smaller now, how many reasons small fears, are now swept aside forever? After all this, Americans have a thousand reasons to be afraid, as many to be proud, and as many to breathe the air and resolve to personally make the American Way - part liberty, part shopping - bigger and stronger than ever...
...that the Justice Department simply felt that its work was done. Like IBM in the '80s, Microsoft didn?t have to lose its antitrust case to be tamed by the protracted scrutiny - the company has had to be on its best behavior for the past five years while a thousand other tech flowers bloomed. By this summer, Bill Gates was introducing the company?s new operating system, Windows XP, with just the sort of concessions on bundling that the feds have been after...
P.R.I. politicos and other Fox opponents are worried that his dream of a new relationship could wind up with Mexico's giving away all its mineral resources and business potential--including full ownership of big firms--in return for the U.S.'s allowing, say, a few thousand Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...
...this year, and "Talking to the Dead," a story from March about dance instructor turned medium John Edward. The "best selling" article from before 1990 is "Everyone's Genealogical Mother," a story from 1987 about a scientific report that suggests that an African female living a couple of hundred thousand years ago may have been humanity's single ancestor...