Cybersurfers are more likely to go to movies, more likely to vote, and more frequent readers of newspapers and magazines than the unwired. Stupid, meddlesome bureaucrats and overzealous enforcers of the Endangered Species Act prevent a tiny catering business from opening its doors. For three weeks in November, this drama plays out in Blondie , the venerable comic strip. Blondie Bumstead's shop finally opens after a cat eats the endangered mouse living in the building.
Utilities prepare for free market electricity.
Southern Co. of Atlanta and Central and South West Corp. of Dallas buy British electric companies that were deregulated in 1990. The FDA ends this discrepancy, treating most biotech and synthetic drugs by the same rules. The Biotechnology Industry Organization says these changes will save millions of dollars and get new drugs to market months sooner. America's move to Bosnia combines the blind idealism of Wilsonian internationalism with the silliness of '90s pop psychology. It's a Western nation where prosperous, literate people would rather shoot their ethnic rivals than look at them.