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eTrex Summit GARMIN, $267 Combination global-positioning system, altimeter and compass in one lightweight, waterproof device. Easy to use and read...
Sometimes innovators don't even recognize the true import of their findings. In 1660s Germany, Magdeburg Mayor Otto von Guericke tries to solve the riddle of a compass needle that doesn't always point (as people thought it should) at the Pole Star. He rubs a model of the earth made of sulfur in order to attract his experimental compass needle. The rubbing produces a noise and a spark (which Guericke mentions in a casual footnote) that turns out to have been electricity...
...poor kids under his bill. If you had a President who just didn't get it, that's one thing. But his willingness to sign a welfare bill that he knew was high-stakes gambling with the lives and futures of our poorest children showed that the moral compass wasn't there. And that's linked to the other defining moment, dragging us through Monica, which also happened because the moral compass wasn't there. The problem was not having an affair. From a religious point of view, people make mistakes. Jesus was very forgiving of people's mistakes...
What you discover in Annan's job fairly quickly is that a moral compass is not enough for you to find your way. You are moving too fast, in what he has called "the race to stop the killing." The job requires more than a sense of right and wrong; it also demands a special kind of diplomatic telemetry. It requires faith. You are sitting across from Milosevic. He is prattling on in his wonderful English and recalling his days as a banker in New York, asking whether certain restaurants are still open. He has just finished meeting with...
...huge recall is scheduled to begin in the South and take up to 18 months to complete nationwide. But nervous motorists from all points of the compass have flooded Ford and Firestone dealerships with requests-cum-demands for new tires, immediately. Many will be turned away, at least for now, until production gears up. Meanwhile, Ford and Firestone issued conflicting instructions for inflating the recalled tires. While Ford recommended a pressure of 26-to-30 p.s.i., Firestone insisted on 30 p.s.i. "It just burns you up," says Sue Gorski, a Chicago dental assistant who drives a '98 Explorer. "It feels...