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...cabinet isn't big enough to fill a kitchen. Russell Verney is the all-around organizer, spinmeister, and aide-de-camp. A former air-traffic controller who ran for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire, he has brought some order to the Perot operation where others have failed. Clay Mulford, Perot's son-in-law, a big-time corporate lawyer, is the resident expert on arcane election and finance issues. Perot has a part-time pollster in Gordon Black, who provides memos on message and tactics but typically gets no feedback from the candidate...
...closely guarded secret. Two former Olympians, American boxer Evander Holyfield and Greek track star Voula Patoulidou, ran around the track together and handed off to U.S. swimmer Janet Evans. She ran up the ramp and passed the torch to a large man emerging from the shadows. As Cassius Clay, he had won the light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome, and as Muhammad Ali, he became the most famous athlete in the world. But a lifetime of blows has left him with Parkinson's syndrome and robbed him of his quick wit and physical skills. So when Ali bravely took...
...What Clay and his co-workers do by contrast is rocket science. And even though seasoned machinists like Clay earn more in an hour (about $50, including fringe benefits) than a comparable Chinese worker is paid in a month, the American worker still is more productive...
...more than 500,000 U.S. industrial workers last year had their jobs exported to China. A study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington predicts that over the next four years, 250,000 more jobs in the aerospace industry alone will be lost to China. That's why Clay and others wonder if their futures will be sacrificed so that Boeing and companies like it, lured by the potential of 1.2 billion people, can boost their share of the China market. Laments Clay: "Companies in this country are sending manufacturing of just about everything to China." Clay's friend...
...incline suddenly changes. Nobody knows why, although archaeologists have argued about it for years. Some theorize that the King may have died during construction, forcing workers to finish quickly. Others suggest that a building disaster--a heavy rain, perhaps--required a change of plans. Stadelmann believes the weak clay beneath the pyramid began to give way; rather than leave an ugly stub, Snefru completed the project at a gentler (and hence more stable) incline and began building the Red Pyramid a mile to the north...