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Thursday, January 03, 2002 Madrid is well into the change of currency, from the peseta to the euro. The first 13 pages -- count 'em, 13 -- of yesterday's El País, Spain's lefty newspaper, were devoted to the changeover to the euro. Likewise, though the front page of today's El Mundo contains two other headline stories in addition to one re: the euro ("Strong revaluation of the euro in its debut before the dollar and the pound"), the following seven pages contain nothing but articles on the new currency. No chaos so far, no panic that I've seen. The reaction to this point seems to be good-natured interest and curiosity. rws 1:47 PM [+] |