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...frozen continent. Never mind that the theft left approximately 100 quadrillion tons of the stuff still intact; the ice is now in Valparaiso, soon to head south in an insulated container. Antarctica will be whole -- and the atmosphere will have to absorb an extra load of pollution, the by-product of fuel burned in shipping the berg back home...
...essential prelude to the restoration of some form of responsible central authority. The commanders of the U.S.-led military force insist that their mission is limited to ensuring the delivery of food to hundreds of thousands of starving Somalis and that political reconciliation would be a serendipitous by-product. But the Kismayu reports and the green line thuggery point up the difficulty of creating even a semblance of order. With no government to speak of, even the most powerful warlords have limited influence over their satraps elsewhere and no hope at all of exercising control over free-lance bandits...
...year, but sales have slowed to 4% since 1990 as customers have turned to less expensive but powerful personal computers and linked workstations. Many manufacturers of large systems have already fallen victim to this irreversible change. In August, Wang Laboratories was forced to file for bankruptcy. Unisys, the by-product of the merger of Burroughs and Sperry, nearly went under after it suffered $2.5 billion in losses in 1989 through 1991. Huge losses also nearly claimed Digital Equipment, whose board ousted founder and president Kenneth Olsen earlier this year...
...think we have to stop traditional values that make us think [a fatherless family] is wrong, Williams added. "Who I am is a by-product of a single woman...
...food, which Miller dubs "modern Western," is steeped in the same pioneering spirit. His eclectic menu ranges from neo-Tex-Mex tidbits like chipotle chile breadsticks to fresh-baked buckwheat cinnamon bread, smoked duck and buffalo jerky. "Smoking is a natural by-product of heat," Miller says, launching into an aria of poetic exaltation. "There's an intensity of wildness, of untamed flavor. It's loaded symbolically with a primordial sense of fire and man. I read a lot of meaning into food. I think it's one of the last experimental frontiers...