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...March 6, members of the Board of Overseers received urgent FedEx packages, asking them to clear their schedules for an emergency meeting on March 11 to approve the committee's selection...
...GATT. Zoellick needs a big win showing that trade is a Net-age worry. E-firms like Amazon are dying to get into world markets but are relentlessly blocked, both by local governments that want to control the Net and by infrastructure problems (ever tried to FedEx a book in China?). Zoellick should craft an e-initiative that would help U.S. firms extend their cyberdominance. Even a limited deal could be a fast, high-profile score...
...hypersonic passenger planes around 2025. "We will have the capability to go after this in a big way. We're real excited." Paull is similarly bullish: "The applications are likely to initially be more for space or military. But scramjets have the essentials for a passenger plane." Rausch says FedEx have also expressed an interest in using the technology for a priority package service. As for turning the lights out on the in-flight films and food fiascos that define modern air travel, Rausch says killing off killing time "would be fine with me." Bye-bye economy class syndrome?hello...
...Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time (almost 9 million copies sold), whose battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) did not keep him from visiting Caltech in March. Charles e-mailed Hawking's assistant, and after making two small editing changes requested by Hawking, received a FedEx package from California the next day. Inside was a piece of paper bearing Hawking's freshly made right thumbprint...
...noon the day my flowers arrived, my room was awash in color. Unfortunately, the color of a $49 bouquet of tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...