He startled Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by informing them that the Bush administration wants to withdraw U.S. peacekeepers from the Sinai. A need for speed and leisure Most Americans are living at a faster pace than ever before. Innovations such as overnight delivery of packages and microwaveable dinners that satisfied consumers in the past fall short of today's rapidly rising expectations for ever-faster service. Now anything less than instantaneous can seem unbearably slow. . . At the same time that we're willing to move at hyperspeed, more Americans are feeling the urge to slow things down, to return to a time of greater simplicity and ease, say trendspotters.
People cope by taking up relaxing hobbies like gardening and fishing.