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...prices do fall, cattlemen like Bill Murphy in Montana expect they can wait it out. The trick in this business, he notes, is timing. The 60-year-old rancher says a lot of cow-calf operators have played the market right so far. They sold this year's calf crop when prices were up and may find that the market for beef has recovered by the time they are ready to sell their herds again next fall. Out at Murphy's ranch, on the snowy prairie of southern Montana, his pregnant cows' offspring will not be ready for sale until...
...faster. The headmaster had a secretary who took me under her wing, and she agreed to type the story out because I thought it should be immortalized. And the headmaster discovered that I was giving work to his secretary and flogged me for it. He had a riding crop, and it made a hell of a cut into the flesh of the bum." A pause for amused reflection. "I don't know whether he flogged me because I was a rival employer or whether he didn't like the story...
...ever spoken to her as did the 6-year-old in your article who told his teacher to "shut up, bitch," I would have been tasting laundry soap for days. We were exposed to as much violence in the movies and on TV as the current crop of kids. We also had working mothers, but our parents knew how to set and enforce limits and didn't hesitate to do so. It's up to the parents to raise their children. Too many of them aren't doing it. JUDY LIND New York City...
...Life Sciences is part of a crop of this year's World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, whose innovations are making the world a healthier place by tackling malnutrition, combating diseases like AIDS and cancer and preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake...
...search for alternative energy is nothing new, but the current crop of innovators is focusing on the long-elusive goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell--which extracts electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm...