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...first ever all-out, no-limits sailing race around the world. Melville wouldn't have recognized them: today's racing sailboats consist of two ultralight carbon-fiber hulls stuffed full of computers, with a trampoline strung between them for a deck. In Tim Zimmerman's account of the competition, titled simply The Race, stir-crazy, sleep-deprived crews sail these wind-powered funny cars across the sea at 40 knots (about 45 m.p.h.), swerving wildly around icebergs, battling e-mail viruses and pushing the boats to their limits--the vast sails are so powerful that they're constantly...
...blue to row from Brooklyn, N.Y., all the way to New Orleans and back; he took rivers and canals heading south (with the occasional portage where necessary) and hugged the Atlantic seacoast on the return leg. In On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat, a chatty, cheerful account of his journey, Stone faithfully records his encounters with bewildered locals along the way, although the best parts are the quieter moments, when you can almost hear the plash of a well-plied oar on smooth black water...
...announce its negative decision on Erbitux in two days. Later that night Waksal drafted a note, marked "Urgent--Immediate Attention Required," to his Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, sources say. Stopped from trading by the firm's blackout, Waksal gave instructions to transfer $4.9 million in stock to the account of his younger daughter Aliza Waksal. At 8:30 the next morning, he called Aliza, phone records show. She called Bacanovic's aide at 9 a.m with orders to sell $2.5 million of her own ImClone stock, sources say. Sam Waksal then tried to sell the shares he had transferred...
Women, who account for 52 percent of this country’s population, have not achieved the true political equality dreamt by our feminist pioneers. Of more than 12,000 members of Congress since our nation’s founding, only about 2 percent, or 215, have been women. All of America’s 43 presidents and 46 vice presidents have been men. The discrepancy of power between men and women only increases when comparing the U.S. to many other parts of the world. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. ranks 55th globally in terms of women?...
...said Let’s Go Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia book editor Megan M. Brumagim ’04, who said her researcher-writers prefer Webmail over other web-based email services. “They don’t have to worry about signing up to another Hotmail account to communicate with...