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...Ramadan's message isn't intended for Muslims alone. "The real question is about spirituality," he says. "If the presence of Muslims leads Europeans to think about who they are and what they believe in, that has to be positive." Thanks partly to Ramadan, Islam is on its way to becoming an integral part of Europe's religious landscape...
PAGING DR. PALM Websites that will store your medical history are spreading like rashes on the Internet, but do you really want to have to go online just to see if it's time to take your allergy medicine? WellMed www.wellmed.com thinks it has a less painful way to nag you. It's launching a wireless service that can send both routine and condition-specific notices straight to your Web-enabled phone, wireless PDA or alphanumeric pager. The free account can keep track of your daily health regimen and your full medical history, which can be automatically faxed to your...
...suggest that the urbane and hilarious Montaigne - in his way, the most honest man who ever lived, and one of the most interesting writers - might be a model (if Americans were given to reading people like Montaigne, which they are not) for the attitude of intelligent and philosophical tolerance we ought to bring to the matter that is now before the court...
...way, this is good news for the Gore team, since such a divide leaves only Justices Scalia and Thomas to defend the conservative line; Justices Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer and Stevens would need only one of the wavering votes to reverse the stay on the Florida recount...
...stay to halt "the counting of votes that are of questionable legality." The rickety old Votomatics are just hole-punching aids; if the voter has neither sufficient passion to puncture a piece of perforated cardboard nor sufficient intentness to follow directions and clean up his chads on his way to the to-be-tabulated pile, maybe magnifying glasses are too good for him. We make a voter make his way to the polls; do we demand so little of him from that point on? It's a fine line between government disenfranchisement and the self-inflicted kind...