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Friendship is thrust upon Melvin, and he doesn't quite know what to do with it. When Simon is beat up in his apartment and Melvin winds up caring for his dog (the very one he tried to dump earlier), Melvin develops an attachment to the animal that sets the stage for actual interaction with humans. Similarly, he becomes so dependent on the daily routine of Carol's service that, when she takes time off to care for her asthmatic son, he is virtually forced to involve himself in her life and set things right again. In the process...
G.O.P. legislators to dump Newt...
...certainly small beer compared with the Soviet Union's estimated 175 peace-time atomic tests. But it could be a call to arms to residents of Richland, Washington, who will be able to read details on the Internet of the Hanford nuclear reservation, which appears to have decided to dump radioactive water directly into the Columbia river. Although releasing documents won't turn back the clock, it may make the DOE think twice about such outlandish experiments in future...
Looking beyond land mines, Parish foresees Omnitech technology being used in all sorts of repetitive and dangerous tasks--moving ore or tailings in a mine, hauling toxic wastes from an old dump, fighting oil-field fires. Omnitech is talking with Barbados and Jamaica about rigging vehicles used for dock transport in loading and unloading ships...
...global than homegrown. Japan is the major world trouble spot. Since 1990, it has suffered from sluggish output growth, a stock-market depression and a credit crunch. Now chaos in Southeast Asia endangers Japan's exports and loans to the area. Japanese investors, desperate to raise cash, might someday dump holdings of American securities; that would knock down stock and bond prices and shoot up U.S. interest rates. Weinberg sees a 1-in-100, but rising, chance of that happening--but contrasts that with a 1-in-1 million risk a year...