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...Last week George Bush declared that America was in the middle of an "education recession," launching a new line of attack against Al Gore that he's likely to repeat in Tuesday's debate. He used the phrase 13 times in a single speech. But where did it come from? Answer: the most unlikely of places for a candidate who frequently boasts that "we take stands without having to run polls and focus groups to tell us where we stand." As it happens, the phrase education recession was cooked up by Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos and was so thoroughly...
...doily beneath an espresso served to a guest at Benjamin Netanyahu's office still bears the inscription "Prime Minister of Israel." After Israel's Attorney General, Elyakim Rubinstein, decided last week not to prosecute the former Prime Minister for fraud, many political observers are betting Netanyahu will soon be able to order a new stock of those paper coasters. The man who 16 months ago quit politics after an electoral pummeling is now cast by right-wingers as the only leader who can prevent Prime Minister Ehud Barak from making too many concessions to the Palestinians...
MENTAL FITNESS Another reason to get off the couch: researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that moderate aerobic exercise three times a week works as well as Zoloft in lifting clinical depression. What's more, after 10 months only 8% of the exercisers had relapsed into depression, in contrast to 38% of patients on medication and 31% of those who were both exercising and taking medication...
...million Cost in 1953 to build Milwaukee, Wis., Brewers' County Stadium, which played host to its last game last week ($30.8 million today, adjusted for inflation...
...test well. "School choice" is more popular. And while aides insist Bush's Social Security plan wasn't tested in advance, the words he uses to describe it were. Which is why you'll rarely hear him call for "private" retirement accounts; "personal accounts" are less scary. And last week Bush mocked Gore's promise to give tax cuts only to "the right people," an assault that focus groups told him would work...