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...plated: royal country houses are equipped with Agas, Mel Gibson is a fan, and Tony Blair used to have an Aga before moving to No. 10 Downing Street. The stove has even given its name to a genre of contemporary fiction: "Aga sagas" are about modern families whose lives ebb and flow through Aga-centered kitchens...
...earnings tide isn?t quite at full ebb yet, with a smattering of companies still waiting to tell Wall Street how bad things have been lately and how much better or worse they?re going to get. Among them: some telecom (Verizon), some energy (Williams, PG&E, Aon, Royal Dutch Petroleum), some grub (Tyson, Wendy?s, Del Monte Foods), some health care (Humana, Cardinal Health) and some tech (Scient, Applied Microsystems, Priceline.com). Thursday, the 23rd San Francisco Money Show opens by the Bay, and Logitech International - remember when everybody was doing this? - splits its stock...
...focusing its efforts on bringing Washington on board, as unlikely as that may look right now. And the Kyoto decision will have given the Europeans and other industrialized nations a sense of collective power and confidence to act independently of the U.S. that is likely to grow rather than ebb...
...TIME. An accountant for a foreign company in Beijing, she secretly uses her firm's overseas data line to read Falun Gong's website. In early January she found an essay by Li Hongzhi called "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance." Written at the time the demonstrations were starting to ebb, the essay urged more dramatic actions against the "evil" of the crackdown. "I copied it to a CD-ROM and gave it to everyone I know," she says. Through such networks, Li's words have spread to more radical practitioners. On Jan. 23, five suspected followers set themselves on fire...
...then the tide began to ebb. That year, the College had limited veterans' admissions to just 200 slots. In the class admitted that fall, civilians once again outnumbered former military...