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Normally, water in that area drains out through a grate next to the window, but Director of the Science Center Dean R. Gallant said he believed the drain was either frozen or clogged with debris...
...Cabinet Room speaks as well to a growing worry: Will the President manage to turn his gaze overseas often enough to protect U.S. national interests? Nervous foreign governments are wondering how much clout the leader of the free world can still wield, and how fast it might drain away in the bloodletting over Interngate. As Administration officials tell it, the scandal posed no problem. And to make the point more emphatically, officials say, "He certainly has no trouble concentrating on issues of war and peace." In other words, Clinton is thinking very carefully about whether to bomb Iraq and punish...
...Haibo says he believes establishing a fair system to compete on equal ground would help check China's brain drain...
...surface of a silicon chip acts as a switch that can open or close a gate. Computers process information by manipulating sequences of opened and closed gates. A positive charge applied to the gate attracts electrons, allowing current to flow across the gap from the source to the drain. A negative charge stops the current and closes the gate...
...fund's bailouts in Asia will be money down the drain unless its prescriptions become permanent reforms. For that the region will need strong political leaders who are willing to battle the alliance of bureaucrats, business and labor interests that benefited from the old system. Asian governments have been resisting the details in IMF rescues. The bailout of Indonesia has been slowed by the reluctance of officials to act against firms connected to the children of President Suharto...