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...shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...
...doesn't help matters that Immelt is starting his tenure at the end of an unprecedented bull market and in the midst of a global economic slowdown, when GE businesses from lighting and appliances to NBC are slumping and, some critics suggest, cash cows like power systems and aircraft engines may be peaking. Even the political climate has changed. In Europe, regulators scotched GE's proposed $43 billion deal with Honeywell (last week they moved on to Microsoft). In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency is forcing GE to clean up the mess it made dumping PCBs into the Hudson...
DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, writer who chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...reactor designed for moon colonies, could eventually be used to light up individual office buildings and apartment blocks. Given Japan's nuclear safety record, that can only be considered a very hot appliance. TINY TAURUS Osaka University researchers have sculpted a plastic bull the size of a red blood cell, a laser technique that may lead to mite-sized machines. It's nice to see bullishness amid Japan's economic paralysis?even on a microscopic scale...
...Pacino, respectively; in New York City. When Maas received $400,000 for the film rights to the story of Frank Serpico's struggle against corruption within the New York City police department, he gave half of it to Serpico. He also chronicled the careers of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, the Mafia informant, and Aldrich Ames, the CIA turncoat. DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, stage and screen actress best remembered for her portrayal of Cherie, the saucy nightclub singer in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances in the films Seance on a Wet Afternoon...