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...movie is at its best when the disease first reaches the U.S. and we watch it attack the first victims. The initial cases are clever and funny, sparking curiosity as to the direction of the disease...
...billion years of age. So if Freedman's initial attempt to date the universe holds up, Primack and plenty of other theorists may have to begin prying themselves away from an idea they have held dear for more than a decade-unless they can think of some clever...
Japanese cable executives admit theirs is still a risky business. Because of the high cost of installation, service is expensive--$40 a month for the average household--and no one expects that cable TV on its own will be a big draw, despite clever new features such as a karaoke station. Says Minoru Akimoto, president of Titus Communications, a cable-TV joint venture involving Itochu, Toshiba, Time Warner and U.S. West: ``In Japan, where housewives have the final say on financial matters, they won't like it. They'll say, `You want me to buy a service that gets...
...knowledge amassed and handed down to us from earlier generations. People in prehistoric times laughed, loved, mourned, thought and created. Do not underestimate them, for they were not too different from us. Those who were alive at the time of the rock paintings in Chauvet were probably as clever as many of us living today. Their lives, although on the average shorter and much harder than ours, must have been rich with emotions and experiences...
...Indiana's University of Notre Dame. ``We make money from our proximity, but the power is asymmetrical. The U.S. is boss. It calls the shots, and it wants us on our knees before it will deal with us.'' Adds former Foreign Minister Fernando Solana: ``I congratulate Clinton for being clever. He is helping U.S. investors who made a fortune on Mexico's high- interest rates, but now do not want to assume that risk...