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...attempt to lose its "license to kill" image. Only last week, MI5 -- the domestic spy service -- issued a booklet pointing out that while it holds 13,000 active files on British residents, it "does not kill people or arrange their assassination." Now it seems MI6, MI5's foreign-espionage counterpart, will be forced to bring out a similar glossy pamphlet denying everything. Mr. Bond will be most displeased...
Between the coffee and water, my friends and I made our way to the base of the Washington Monument to visit the wall of Sani-johns. Stretching far and wide, the off-white rows looked like the horizontal counterpart to the more upstanding monument. Unfortunately, with nearly five-hundred thousand thirsty visitors each drinking ice-cold bottles of water (nearly one million dollars into the US economy!), even a horizontal monument couldn't accommodate the frantic crowds that gathered...
...antimatter counterpart of protons, antiprotons are believed to be exactly the same as protons except that they have a negative charge instead of a positive charge. Antimatter is not generally found in nature...
...chief irony of the past week's convoluted maneuverings is that each side in the biggest antitrust case in two decades knew where its counterpart stood well before the conflict's looming D-day--Microsoft's May 15 deadline for giving its new operating system, Windows 98, to PC manufacturers. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein believed that the ways Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to dominate other markets violate antitrust law, and that the company had to be reined in lest it gain a choke hold on the Internet. Gates felt otherwise, and had long since made it clear that...
...phrase that Clinton highlighted in this year's State of the Union message. "Both governments have to react to challenges like globalization and better education for workers, and we have similar perspectives on what's needed," says White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who organizes the meetings with his British counterpart, David Miliband, Blair's policy chief...