Al-Ahram Weekly Online
9 - 15 August 2001
Issue No.546
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Currencies fall, economies stumble. Confusion besets our politics, and politics besets us with confusion. Violence and bad news confront us daily. Even nature protests: devious gases heat the earth, scientists warn as the by-products of our material prosperity threaten the ozone layer. So in all the sound and fury, it is a comfort to know that in the middle of a global heat-wave that may or may not be an omen of climatic catastrophe, in Upper Michigan they can abandon worry, laugh at concern, kick back -- and chill out!

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