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...show Sarkozy holding steady with a 55% approval rating. Yet a further test of will comes on Nov. 20, when hundreds of thousands of state employees are scheduled to protest over 22,000 public-sector job cuts slated for 2008. And more antireform demonstrations will follow. But Sarkozy can draw strength from the immensity of the stakes: he knows that caving in now could mean surrendering the rest of his presidency...
Enfucell batteries won't power your digital camera, your flashlight or your watch. At 1.5 volts they might be sufficiently powerful, but they don't last long enough. Rather, Happonen hopes first to sell large quantities to the makers of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which don't draw constant power and lend themselves to the battery's thinness. RFID tags are the tiny chips that are replacing bar codes. They wirelessly transmit information about themselves, making it easier to track, say, what's in stock in a store. Battery-powered RFID tags can transmit farther than non-battery-powered...
With 16 points in under a minute, jubilant Harvard had earned a share of the Ivy title, but even more rewardingly, had stunned the experts and foiled the ballyhooed Bulldogs’ perfect season. The shock and satisfaction of the draw was memorialized in this paper’s Monday banner headline: “Harvard Beats Yale...
...best and brightest” from around the world, we produce the best university possible. With much the same intent, the New York Yankees over the past decade have tried to lure the best and brightest baseball players from the baseball-playing world. Both institutions draw their superstars through an incomparable pile of riches and an even bigger name. And both ensure that many of those aspirants end up with a new sense of humility: Even with the finest facilities and greatest incentives, both see individuals crack under the pressure...
Though marquee U.S. leagues are NASN's big draw, the channel doesn't shrink from sports that even Americans ignore such as Arena and Canadian football and Major League Lacrosse. As for the U.S. version of the global game, NASN dropped Major League Soccer when viewers complained that they got better matches from local leagues. That means L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham's best chance of appearing on NASN is if he can start bending curveballs like L.A. Dodgers star Brad Penny...