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...Happy birthday,' a lot. I congratulate people at work for achieving employee-of-the-month." LORENZO LAMAS, former co-star of such TV shows as Falcon Crest, on his latest job, providing greetings on a website, HollywoodIsCalling.com where B-list celebrities sell phone greetings to people willing...
...success in ascending party ranks was due more to his efficiency than to his leadership. Before being transferred to Beijing in 1982, he toiled for 14 years as a low-level apparatchik in impoverished Gansu province in western China. His are the political instincts of a prairie dog in falcon country; he twice survived purges by keeping his head down while those of his immediate supervisors were rolling. During the Tiananmen uprising in 1989, Wen was firmly in the camp of reformists and protodemocrats as an aide to party chief Zhao Ziyang. Zhao failed in his bid to oust authoritarian...
...valley of the dead," declared explorer Robert Falcon Scott after discovering Taylor Valley in 1903, and at first glance it would seem he was right. Yet there is life in the Dry Valleys, albeit life that is primitive in form and exceedingly cryptic. Minuscule roundworms called nematodes and insects known as springtails constitute what biologists jokingly call the "lions and tigers of the soil." The top of the aquatic food chain is occupied by single-cell protozoa that feed on bacteria...
...that suggest racing cars. The PCs are made to optimize the wild 3-D graphics and surround sound of video games like Grand Theft Auto 2 and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (and of course they can handle any spreadsheet or logo redesign). Made by private companies like Falcon Northwest, based in Ashland, Ore., and Alienware in Miami, gaming computers are custom assembled and can be personalized with neon lights and just about any graphic that can be baked onto aluminum. Gaming-PC companies are also known for superior tech support and customer service. Prices range from...
Some of the criticism has gotten personal. On the Eliot list, Deon D. Falcon ’02 wrote that the speech’s content would be “fine,” but that Yasin was “a ick for intellectualizing and expounding upon the meaning of the word ‘jihad’...he is hitting too close to home too soon...