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...capital like a big leak. (In the old days, swords could at least be beaten into plowshares. Try beating a tank into a tractor.) And though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference in the way the Japanese and U.S. economies have expanded since 1945. And it has nothing to do with...
...product is only the first in a series of substitutes being developed by such companies as Procter & Gamble, Frito-Lay and Best Foods. P&G is seeking approval for a heat-resistant, calorie-free, synthetic compound called olestra that can supposedly replace fat in almost any food...
FACT: The Cambridge water supply--which includes Harvard water--has been contaminated with abnormally high levels of a potentially carcinogenic compound for more than a year...
...former prosecutor's strong ties to Harvard and the affluent segment of Cambridge may compound this image. A resident of Adams House during his undergraduate years, Weld was a member of the Fly Club, one of nine all-male final clubs, which have recently been criticized for their policy of excluding women...
...kennel seemed an odd venue for a watershed event in U.S. military history. But when members of the 988th Military Police Company from Fort Benning, Ga., engaged Panamanian soldiers in a firefight at an attack-dog compound near Panama City, the American platoon was commanded by a woman: Captain Linda L. Bray, 29, of Butner, N.C. Bray, one of 771 Army women who took part in the Panama operation, had added a page to the annals of American warfare: for the first time women, who compose almost 11% of the U.S. armed forces, had engaged hostile troops in modern combat...