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...follow in this report, for which a score of correspondents and another dozen photographers fanned out across Europe to discover how the guildhall has met high-tech. At Waterford Crystal in Ireland, for example, each piece of glassware still passes through up to 40 pairs of hands, and master cutter Jim O'Shea still keeps about 400 designs in his head. But today, the chance of a flawed piece of glassware leaving Waterford is less likely than ever: a modern quality-control system flags any defect on computer screens...
...understand childhood trauma and Tobey Maguire gets the lead in "Spiderman," there?s an interesting way to do this - think Michael Keaton in "Batman." Wahlberg?s (or Burton?s) Capt. Leo Davidson has (apparently) a lovely girlfriend who misses him, as well as the usual complement of cookie-cutter friends who send him a joshing taped message from some idyllic backyard barbecue back on Earth. Come home soon, buddy...
...Here were two people on seemingly opposite sides of the aisle coming together on the issue of science funding,” Casey said. Despite his reputation as a budget cutter, Gingrich has been a strong supporter of the universities’ goal of greater funding, Casey said...
Manjarrez's father crossed 50 years ago and began a life that matches that of many people his son is trying to apprehend today. Victor Sr. made his way to Tucson, Ariz., worked as a dishwasher and a meat cutter and every month sent money back to his family in Nayarit. They teased him about how proud he was to be an American and nicknamed him Eisenhower. He raised his two children in the U.S. and sent his eldest--Victor Jr.--to college, then saw him join the U.S. border patrol. Its ranks are filled with agents who have similar...
...here on the frontier, only the hardiest survive. And Paramount Academy is both figuratively and literally on the frontier. The school operates out of a handful of trailers at the edge of a cookie-cutter housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down...