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...column is being marketed by two Rupert Murdoch syndicates. Murdoch's New York Post managed to report the fuss without mentioning that the Post was carrying the column. Late last week News America Syndicate President Richard Newcombe said that E.A.V. Associates Inc. (a U.S. firm that licenses Vatican art reproductions) originated the column and apparently had not got the proper clearances. After conferring with the Vatican communications director, Archbishop John Foley, Newcombe announced that future columns would carry source references for John Paul's statements and that Foley's office would screen all the editing...
Some think the fuss is not worth the price. Rather than reducing costs, warns Robert Jones, an Atlanta regional manager with the real estate firm of Cushman and Wakefield, smart technology actually increases them; for one thing, more sophisticated workers are required to maintain the buildings. "We're no longer talking about boilers and fuse boxes," says Jones. "Maintenance crews today have to know what 'optimum start times' and 'digital control devices' mean." Others criticize the lack of choice implicit in a smart building, which gets its technology from only a few suppliers...
Last week in a brightly lit room at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., the first production model of the Cray-2 gurgled and glowed, and a nearby printer spewed out a string of characters: s905. B D/U WO/F 06/04 15:24:22 16a. Software Manager Dieter Fuss stared at the message and interpreted it for the assembled Livermore technicians and executives: "It just came alive and said, 'I'm ready...
...gets a free doctorate is made by a group of about 12 alumni, professors and members of the governing boards who are hand-picked by the seven-man governing Corporation. Many of the 12 have no comment on the selection process; others don't see what all the fuss is about...
...forced to leave their jobs without collecting wages they were owed. But the Nigerian government appeared to shrug off the chaos that the expulsion brought to so many lives. Said one immigration official: "Countries like Great Britain or France expel illegal aliens on a daily basis. Why all this fuss about Nigeria...