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...Monday's doubleheader with Penn, junior outfielder Joe Llanes drove in the winning run with a pinch-hit single up the middle in the bottom of the eleventh, and junior catcher Scot Hopps doubled to the gap in right with the bases loaded in the fifth to score three...
What this seems to be is a bit of stock market-style speculation, just as speculation drove the prices up before the OPEC decision. The prices are dipping prematurely in expectation of lower barrel prices, led by fierce competition among gasoline retailers to pull in customers by offering the lowest prices on the block. "If you want to be a price leader, you make the adjustment so people keep coming back," said TIME business editor William Saporito...
...this alters a fundamental transformation as we move from a computer-based economy to a communications-based economy--one in which you don't need PC power at your fingertips anymore because you can reach it instantly via the Web. "Many years ago people had trouble understanding what drove political issues," says Cisco CEO John Chambers. "It was the economy, stupid. Today people are asking what's driving the economy. Well, it's the network effect, stupid...
...What drove up the cost of the project was the size of the spacecraft needed to reach Mars, and what drove up the size of the spacecraft was all the fuel and other consumables it would need to carry with it on so long a trip. But while Mars is indeed remote--at its farthest it's 1,000 times as distant as the moon--it has a lot of things the moon doesn't, most notably an atmosphere. And that makes all the difference...
...much faster than that of light (see "Will We Discover Another Universe?", in this issue). Cosmologists take inflation seriously because it resolves problems that bedeviled older versions of the Big Bang, but inflation also has implications for the study of cosmic destiny. Among them is that the force that drove the inflationary spasm, sometimes tagged with the Greek letter lambda after its designation in Einstein's general-relativity equations, might not have subsided altogether back when the inflationary hiccup ended. Instead, it might still be there, lurking in empty space and urging expansion along, like an usher politely shooing playgoers...