Word: virtually
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...average couch potato about the slumping euro, and you'll probably hear all about Svetlana Khorkina's early mistrials on the uneven bars in Sydney. Far more meaningful, though, are the mistrials of the virtual currency that much of Euroland adopted in 1999 to simplify trade and build economic muscle. A spendable euro won't be in print before 2002. Until then, it's a calculation that 11 nations peg their currencies to, and so far it hasn't worked well for Europeans. Underscoring the trouble: Denmark last week elected not to join the Euro union...
...comes a sense of social norms. And such norms can, over time, begin to prevade everything from ideas about casting to styles of acting to a director's choice of plays and even to decisions about which plays to attend, leaving those who want to try something different in virtual obscurity...
...enabled companies to extend a school-based marketing effort to involve the whole family. Web services such as FamilyEducation.com offer free school home pages to pitch financial services and mortgages to visiting parents. Others, like SportsCapsule.com, take advantage of the geographically scattered nature of the modern family to sell virtual high school sporting events in the form of videotaped games and on-line game highlights...
...addition to Chagnon and Neel, another scientific heavyweight--French anthropologist Jacques Lizot, who lived among the Yanomami for 25 years--is targeted by Tierney. He describes Lizot as keeping a virtual harem of Yanomami boys and exchanging gifts for sexual favors...
...candidates' websites aren't much help. Georgewbush.com does nothing special for children, and Gore's "Just For Kids," a corner of Algore.com is a big snore. I can't leave my daughters unattended at whitehouse.gov the "Virtual Library" houses 186 mentions of Monica...