Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rays and gamma rays recorded by orbiting observatories let astronomers know just how strong the magnetic field on this magnetar, dubbed SGR1900+14, is: about 800 trillion times as strong as the field that makes a compass work on Earth...
...control, toward resolutions no one can assure. There are Republicans looking for treasure down here--political power embedded for years to come. And there are Democrats looking for someone to blame. But for the rest of us, there is too little light, too little air, no compass, no ropes: this is not a spectator sport. We just want someone to show...
Montana author Rick Bass is a magical realist of eerie skill who takes readers deep into the natural world along paths that have no reasonable compass bearing and that don't lead easily back to the comfort of pavement. Drop your trail of breadcrumbs as you venture into The Lost Grizzlies, a long, moody essay, or The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, a strange, brilliant book of short stories...
...instance, and you can jam along with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous as it is, "it's not John Coltrane." Still, like flight simulators that let you pilot...
...three months of 1998, to $243 million, due in part to derivatives. At the end of last year, its total risk from Asian derivatives--should others default--was more than $3 billion. Bankers Trust's derivatives' delinquencies have leaped from zero to $330 million in a year, and the compass points to Indonesian and Thai clients. In total, the bank has some $5 billion of derivative credit exposure in Asia. And Greenspan was quite right to be concerned about CIBC. The bank has nearly $1 billion in gross foreign derivatives with parties that are below "investment grade" (translation: risky...