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Driving on the highway, I am stuck behind a black delivery truck from East Coast Custom Car. On the back of the truck in bright yellow lettering is a list of things sold at East Coast Custom Car: stereos, alarm systems, bed liners, 4X4 accessories, trailer hitches, fog lights, wheels "and so much more." I make a note to include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish...
...weeks to poring over secret lists of targets in Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. The strikes, by Navy and Air Force jets as well as by cruise missiles, would be at the suspected weapons facilities Saddam has tried to hide from U.N. inspectors. Fighter pilots have an internal alarm clock that puts them more on edge when they sense combat is near, and the flyers on the Nimitz, watching CNN day and night, have that feeling...
...scary sense that something actually could happen," he says. "Now there's a much better chance that something will happen, so guys are going into the box with that mind-set." It was the threat to the U-2 spy plane that was setting off the pilots' internal alarm bells. They knew that if Saddam Hussein even tried to fire at a U-2, the Nimitz air warriors would be launched in reprisal. When a U-2 flew early last week, the pilots "spooled up," sensing that the call might come quickly. Now, with more U-2 flights planned...
...leaders have been eyeing both countries with growing alarm. In a letter to his Japanese counterpart two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly urged Tokyo to move swiftly to regenerate the Japanese economy and warned against flooding the U.S. with exports as a way to solve Japanese problems. And with concerns rising in Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified last week that Asia's problems, while not yet "serious threats" to the U.S. economy, could become so if they are not defused properly. To do that, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was to meet with Japanese officials...
Temperature control is one of the smartest and most popular options, shaving up to 20% off a homeowner's energy bill. Truly spectacular systems that automate everything from the alarm system to the jets on the Jacuzzi are still a luxury, however. A lighting system that allows homeowners to choose from a selection of preprogrammed "scenarios," for example, runs about $10,000. At that rate, a $60 motion-detecting lamp will do just fine, thank...