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...successful operation needs money, a meticulous plan and reliable people. The operatives working in China are critical. Peters and Kim Sang Hun prefer to depend on fellow Christian activists but will work with trustworthy brokers. There's no magic formula for knowing how many people or how much money is needed. Nor can the route be specified in advance, although right now there are two hot roads out of China--one through Mongolia, another through Laos...
CLAIM TO FAME King is the founder and CEO of Humanscale, a maker of ergonomic office products. Most high-performance desk chairs depend on a maze of knobs and levers to control the settings. Humanscale seat positions are based on the sitter's weight, so the chairs require fewer parts and use fewer environmental resources...
...much of President Bush's legacy is going to depend on what happens in Iraq. The most important thing for a president when a war is going on is to sustain the morale and support of the American people to fight as long as necessary, and to give them the aims of the war which they believe in, so they're willing to continue to sacrifice until those aims are met. That's why Lincoln's address at Gettysburg was so central. It gave people, in such soaring language, the idea that these young men who had died...
...Dana-Farber researcher and associate professor of medicine at HMS, who was not affiliated with the study, explained that the use of hormone therapy on women with ER-sensitive tumors may account for the discrepancy in chemotherapy’s relative effectiveness. “In tumors that depend on hormonal mechanisms to drive them, therapy that targets the hormones has a huge effect. As a result, there is not a lot of room for the added effect of chemo,” Garber said. Because hormone therapy drugs like tamoxifen reduce an ER-positive patient’s death...
...answer is already determined: Charles, then William. At this stage they appear to be a good bet. But, as the 1990s proved to the Windsors, human bloodlines can be as fickle as horses'. "Self-destruction is their biggest problem," says Prochaska; and that, in the end, will depend on choices the future Kings themselves will make. As for the institution of the monarchy, the Queen's track record reveals what she wants to leave behind: a Crown relentlessly pragmatic enough to stay popular...