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Is there no tomorrow?

Cover Story | Americans are enjoying the fruit of a soaring stock market and rising incomes as they go on one of history's biggest consumption binges. But a personal savings rate stuck for months in negative territory is giving new meaning to the old phrase "spending like there's no tomorrow"

In this issue: "Is there no tomorrow?," Aug. 7, 1999

Features

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Security for the unborn or the recently bombed?

International |  It is an annual rite of the Washington budget process for pro-life lawmakers to seek spending-bill amendments that will restrict federal funding of overseas…

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After the bomb

International |  U.S. and Kenyan officials settle in for a long recovery for traumatized victims of Nairobi's 1998 embassy blast

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TV grieve-a-thon an embarrassment

National |  Unprofessional JFK Jr. coverage marked the last gasp of the once-proud broadcast journalism profession

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Between malls & martyrs

National |  Today's teens are more affluent and less rebellious; are they more open to the gospel than past generations?

Dispatches

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News & Reviews

Midwest sizzles, death toll approaches 70 Can't stand the heat Power companies struggled to keep the electricity flowing to residential customers stuck in a…

Reviews

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Music: Keeping the faith?

Music |  Van Morrison's contradictions and Maria Muldaur's paradoxes

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Woodstock nation

Culture |  Reaping the whirlwind of the '60s, building a better search engine, and other cultural buzz

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Millennium on our mind

Culture |  Life 's list inadvertently showed the Reformation way of changing the culture

Voices

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Mailbag

Confused The Dept. of Justice and Dept. of Education video Healing the Hate is getting the victims confused with the perpetrators ("Dept. of Reeducation,"

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An hour at evening

A lament from a wife at her husband's grave

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Sad family portraits

Why isn't it the picture we should have every right to expect?

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Journalism and sin

Grappling with big issues at our Journalism Institute

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