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...down with the boys," she said in response to the question of how easy it was for her as a woman to do her job in a field largely dominated by men. "I'm scrappy. I know how to pick a target and aim. I like to take Republicans out as often...
...parent who can share all kinds of music with her kids without also seeming to endorse the troubling stuff. On this past New Year's Eve, the Experience Music Project sponsored a sold-out dance party that attracted 1,200 people, including parents, teenagers and even younger children. The aim was to provide something with the feel of a rave party but without the drug scene that goes with it. Then again, the main stage attraction was the band Crystal Method, whose name is an obvious pun on crystal meth, the amphetamine-based party drug. "A band can call itself...
...Joint Stand Off Weapon, which is guided by a high-tech global positioning system (GPS) can be launched as far away as 120 miles from its target, and in ideal conditions detonates within a few yards of its "aim point." That was obviously not the case during last week's bombings, and the Navy is currently investigating the data input and tracking systems on the weapons, in hopes of pinpointing the problem...
Some experts say a continental market for electricity, similar to the one that exists for oil and gas, is the eventual solution. But even without a grand plan to support that aim, moves are afoot to tinker with the existing situation. By next year, large regional transmission organizations (RTOS) will be in place across North America to remove some of the jurisdictional clutter. "Right now, if you want to ship power from El Paso [Texas] to B.C., you have to settle 10 or 12 different contracts," says Dennis Eyre, executive director of the Western Systems Coordinating Council in Salt Lake...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...