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...past two years - much of it spent on weapons from Russia and its former Soviet satellites. The Russians, for example, sold Ethiopia eight Sukhoi 27 fighters 18 months ago at a cost of $150 million, and then received a similar amount from Eritrea for a batch of MiG-29 fighters and more for a handful of Sukhoi 25 ground-attack fighters. And the bonanza for the former Soviets didn't end there: Since neither side had the pilots and technical personnel to operate the sophisticated aircraft, they were initially operated and flown by personnel from former Soviet allies before locals...
...example, has been done--most notably by Melissa. The difference this time was a mix of shrewdness and ruthlessness. While Melissa sent out its tainted e-mails one by one, sometimes overloading the very server that was supposed to distribute them, the Love Bug spewed them as a single batch--and it didn't stop at the first 50 names...
...amazing how far a batch of Rice Krispies Treats will go to help break the ice with teenage girls. I learned this and more when I visited two Manhattan high schools last week and gave the snacks to everyone who agreed to test out a new website called kibu.com I liked the site, which launched May 1, because it covered not just the usual girly topics like fashion and hairstyles, but finance, college, films and sports. I also knew that it really didn't matter what a Generation X-er like me thought: it's the girls that count...
...winners, with Kibu in the middle of the pack and Gurl running last. The interesting thing is that Alloy and Bolt are aimed at both boys and girls. So does that mean that girls don't really want a site of their own? Tough question. Let me bake another batch of Rice Krispies Treats and check with my focus group...
...stem cells share is an urge to travel. Evan Snyder, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, has found that stem cells are attracted to injured tissues, perhaps because of biological cues released by dying or diseased cells. Indeed, one of Snyder's lab colleagues found that a batch of stem cells had migrated from one side of a rat's brain to the other to infiltrate a tumor...