FORECAST: HEAT WAVE

NO MATTER WHAT THEY DECIDE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, CLINTON AND GORE WILL MAKE LOTS OF PEOPLE MAD

Leave it to Bill Clinton to find the special language of his audience. "Welcome to the White House on a cool, overcast day, about 60[degrees]," he greeted radio and TV meteorologists brought in for briefings on global warming last week. He said he was auditioning for his retirement job and thought he was qualified for theirs: "I'm used to delivering bad news." They laughed, but Clinton is worried that he's about to unleash a tornado of bad news that no one will find funny. In the next few weeks, he must decide the U.S. position on an international treaty that would...

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