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...bizarre combination that promises to keep you up all night while helping your heart. Don't be surprised if Vultaggio finds another hit. "People see something exciting, and they remember it," he says. "Think they remember the first time they had C2 [Coke's low-calorie cola]? I doubt it." Sure, you can take the CEO off the street. But that doesn't mean he can't still hurl some bricks...
...sort of like being in a bathtub filled with water," says USGS seismologist Thomas Brocher. "When you start splashing, the waves keep bouncing up and down and from side to side." The basin effect amplifies not only the intensity of the shaking but also its duration, which is no doubt why buildings collapsed in Santa Rosa in 1906, killing some 100 people. There are similar sedimentary basins throughout the Bay Area--around the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, for example, and the expanding subdivisions that surround the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
While there is no doubt that many illegal aliens work long hours at dirty, dangerous jobs, evidence suggests that it is low wage rates, not the type of job, that American workers reject. That also surfaced in the Tyson case. The two Tyson managers who pleaded guilty contended that they had been forced to hire illegals because Tyson refused to pay wages that would let them attract American workers. One of those two managers was Truley Ponder, who worked at Tyson's processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. In documents filed as part of Ponder's guilty plea, the U.S. Attorney...
...developer Larry Silverstein restarted the on-again off-again negotiations over control of Ground Zero. The last round ended a couple of weeks before with the future of the new World Trade Center still in limbo and the planned April groundbreaking for the so-called Freedom Tower still in doubt. For four and half years now, the debate over Ground Zero has always been colorful - with "greedy" the preferred insult thrown around - but it hasn't been easy to keep up with all the legal, political and economic minutiae. So here is why, almost five years after the worst terror...
...clueless. In The Omnivore's Dilemma (Penguin Press; 450 pages), he tries to cut through this fog of unknowing. The title refers to the predicament of animals, including rats and humans, that can eat just about anything, whether it's bad for them or not. He has no doubt that much of what we eat is bad for us, for the animals we feed on and for the environment. The author of Second Nature and The Botany of Desire, Pollan is willing to go to some lengths to reconnect with what he eats, even if that means putting...