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These days, the only recourse for Harvard's creative engineers snakes down the back stairwell of Pennypacker. The four-story beer funnel has long been a tradition among Union dwellers. These 40 feet of tattered tubing, duct-taped where needed and capped with a simple plastic funnel, hang as a testament to a freer spirit of invention than exists in the austere labs of Edwin Land's Science Center...
...secret covert-action memo to Congress, but it smelled like a rehash of tired, old schemes, and the Senate Intelligence Committee bounced it. Instead, it backed the $97 million Iraq Liberation Act, an ambitious bill designed to bring support for anti-Saddam dissidents out of the closet and funnel money and guns to them...
Microsoft wanted--and got--what record and movie companies already had: the right to ship master tapes or films overseas, make copies there and funnel the resulting income back through an FSC to generate a tax subsidy. The IRS allows the deduction, even though the manufacturing actually takes place abroad. Software lobbyists sold the change as one that would encourage the creation of high-wage, high-skilled U.S. jobs. It won't, although the company's workers in Ireland, who make CDs and floppy diskettes for sale in Europe, surely are grateful...
...FUNNEL NECK Designers are keeping the silhouette soft, so sweaters like DKNY's are big. And loose...
...Scissorhands), the new magazine won't have any more trouble from him than TIME and (Time Inc.-owned) ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY get from their corporate cousin, Warner Bros. co-chairman Terry Semel. When a reporter notes that those magazines don't report to Semel--and weren't expressly conceived to funnel ideas to Warner Bros.--Brown interjects that the proof of integrity will ultimately lie, as it should, with the magazine itself. "There is a kind of whiff of corruption that comes off an unpure magazine. It's like that empathic communication between dolphins--you don't have to speak about...