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Bush's senior economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, has the task of figuring out what to do about California. One stopgap: renew the Clinton Administration's order that power and gas companies across the country transfer their excess capacity to the Golden State. But diplomacy may be the most effective arrow in Bush's quiver. He plans to place energy on the national-security agenda and lobby OPEC to pump more oil. Although the cartel last week announced production cuts, which pushed prices higher, some key members, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, remain grateful to Bush's father for winning...
...with or without the genome--there's no better place to start than the business end of a good poisonous plant or animal. Modern medicine is filled with drugs derived from deadly poisons, from the muscle relaxant curare (taken from South American vines that are used to poison arrow tips) to the anticoagulant Aggrastat (based on the venom of the saw-scaled viper...
...Plot has never been the sharpest arrow in [the author's] quiver, and [this book] holds true to form. It might, like...earlier works, be called a novel of ideas, but that is too bloodless a description... [The writer] portrays people with ideas--sometimes good, sometimes wacky--bumping into one another and sparking unpredictable reactions...
...renovation project that displaced the Bow and Arrow Pub is now displacing some of Cambridge's trademark sidewalk bricks--at least temporarily...
...past two weeks, workers have been digging up portions of Plympton Street in order to lay four new electrical cables to provide extra power to the building at 1 Bow St., the former home of the Bow and Arrow...