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...think they could have the Z 0's life expectancy pinned down. But by that time the LEP may have beaten them to the goal. "I had hoped," acknowledges Burton Richter, the Stanford center's director, "that we would be in the shape we are now in a year ago. If a miracle had happened and we'd come on two years ago, then we'd have scooped up a lot of Z 0 physics." Now he and his colleagues can only hope the LEP will have extensive start-up problems...
...Administration, by contrast, is seeking a political settlement that would entail some sort of power sharing between the Sandinistas and their opponents. During consultations on Cambodia in Brunei last week, Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that the U.S. is more willing than it was a year ago to accept the current Vietnamese-backed leaders in Phnom Penh as part of a future coalition -- and more committed than before to preventing any return by the genocidal Khmer Rouge...
...night, loses significance, and also you feel like you're being washed down a mad stream somewhere. Fatigue becomes the currency with which you pay. It makes sense though. It is energy, after all, that you are looking for: buried." He recalls the mineral's origin, millions of years ago, in ancient seashores, and feels that there is a "frozen sea in me." Describing the geology of Alabama and Mississippi, he writes, "The old sea retreated two hundred and fifty million years ago . . . the sands, five and six thousand feet down, like plunging porpoises, sounding, headed back to the deep...
Bass can laugh at himself. His linking of oil with eons-old oceans may be the stuff of poetry, but how about oil and Coke? The author, preoccupied with the earth's dwindling oil reserves, was aghast to learn four years ago that his personal fuel was also in peril. When the Coca-Cola Co. announced a new formula for Coke, he began buying up crates of the old stuff. "The world is so thirsty for oil, uses so, so much. We are down to the last thousand Cokes," he mourned. Of course, Coke got a reprieve. That seems unlikely...
...passion to merge has been fueled by the desire of major firms to become global competitors. "The cost of doing business is much greater today than it was 15 years ago," says William Grollman, professor of accounting at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business. "Mergers reduce these costs and eliminate a competitor...