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...smartest new toy, it would be easy to mistake the large, circular building at 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, for just another office complex. But inside, something spectacular is being produced - light a million times brighter than the sun, light to which scientists from around the country are now drawn like moths. They're queuing to use the Australian Synchrotron, the largest such device in the Southern Hemisphere and one of about 40 worldwide. Researchers hope it will provide discoveries and answers across almost every field of science - whether it's seeing how insects breathe, designing new drugs, cleaning up contaminated...
...crew walkout would have triggered. But the ugly dispute left both parties admitting that "a fresh start is needed to the relationship," BA said in a statement issued at the time. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble over pay levels were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s, years before Walsh arrived. He acknowledges: "You don't change the way you do business with long-established trade-union relationships overnight...
...under the Open Skies agreement drawn up by Washington and Brussels, from early next year any E.U. airline will finally have the right to fly to any city in the U.S., and vice versa. With U.S. rivals Delta and Continental expected to start operating flights out of Heathrow next year, "BA's business-class fare is going to be under considerable pressure," says JPMorgan's Avery...
...global environmental conditions worsen, many people are recognizing that there are serious problems with the way we relate to the environment," says Swift. "People are drawn to a field like this as a way to help us connect with the environment. They realize there is a potential healing relationship between humans and the natural world...
...Bill Clinton, Huckabee, who moonlights as a Baptist preacher, is simply the better candidate. At the straw poll, his campaign purchased about 1,800 tickets for supporters, but he earned almost 2,600 votes. That means 800 voters showed up intending to vote for another candidate but found themselves drawn to Huckabee...