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...while back - seven rate cuts ago, to be exact - when the recovery was firmly scheduled for, well, right around now. By late summer, they all said, we?d be well on our way back to the pink (comments to that effect in this space are hereby blamed on everybody else). Well, nobody?s saying that anymore...
...these systems are designed. Researchers in the past had relied on off-the-shelf materials for medical applications. (The fabric in the first artificial heart, for example, was the same polyether urethane used in women's girdles.) Langer reversed the search process; in his lab, researchers first determine the exact physiological requirements of a system and then design a polymer to meet those specs...
...waits for his next sortie, he tells the story of his last raid in February. A crew member on a Thai palm-oil tanker gave him the layout of the ship and an exact time and place to meet in the Malacca Strait. The captain contacted the boss of a Hong Kong triad who agreed to pay the captain and his crew $9,000 upfront and another $50,000 on delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west...
...officials could not provide the exact number of rental properties the school still owns in the neighborhood, though they indicated that the number was less than...
...American former serviceman and Okinawa resident. She tells him she moved to Okinawa a month before and is working at a hospital. Her American boyfriend is in the U.S., she continues. When they decide to leave together, the American says something to a friend about money?13, to be exact. "I do not look 13," the girl fumes, misunderstanding him, and abruptly returns...