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...headquarters are located in a brick furniture warehouse with one main room, empty of furniture except for a few metal folding chairs. A few "Bill Bradley for President" signs dot the walls, but other than that, the only decoration is the linoleum floor...
...improves. Summit recently acquired a start-up company that is working on a laser that uses radar initially developed for the Star Wars, or Strategic Defense Initiative, to track the eye during the operation. Currently doctors keep the eye steady by asking you to stare at a blinking red dot. If you suddenly shift your gaze, your surgeon can turn the laser off very quickly, but the doctor can't compensate for the small, involuntary eye movements we make all the time. These saccadic motions aren't usually a problem, but they may explain some of the variability in results...
Chalk up another victim of dot-com mania: wanna-be doctors. For the second straight year, applications to U.S. medical schools are down, a 4.7 percent drop from 1997 to 1998. That makes a 12 percent decline in since 1996, when applications were at an all-time high. The diagnosis? A strong economy gives bright students a wider range of options and less of a perceived need to seek out a "safe" profession (medical schools experienced similar fluctuations in the late '70s and early '80s during flush economic periods). Add to that the fact that some doctors report less-than...
...road-blocking involves attempts to raise fuel-efficiency standards for popular sport-utility vehicles and vans, which have long had a free ride by being classified as light trucks. For the past four years, opponents have annually attached a rider to the Department of Transportation's budget prohibiting the DOT from raising the standards to equal those for ordinary cars--a move environmentalists say would save 1 million bbl. of oil a day. Backers of the rider argue that they are protecting auto-industry jobs and giving consumers the vehicles they want, but now they are running into stronger opposition...
...registrations. But those days may be numbered. Last week the U.S. Commerce Department sent Network Solutions a letter, released yesterday, saying the directory is public property. "We strongly object to NSI's restrictive policy." Citing the 1993 agreement with the government that effectively created the Network Solutions monopoly on dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domain names, the Commerce Department letter continued, "nothing in the cooperative agreement, nor in existing law gives, NSI the right to restrict access to this information." MORE...