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...ndzeye pa enum yi a, na eye barima (Gather the five virtues, then you are a man). --Fante tribal proverb...
...late July. However, according to testimony given by one of its former employees late last year, the company did its own regular quarterly analysis of adjustment data, plant by plant, every few months. And though NHTSA began its investigation in May, it took Firestone almost three months to gather the data necessary for it and Ford to pinpoint the problem. In the future, Ford says, contracts will stipulate it has complete access to all tire-supplier warranty data...
...Last week the GOP sought to buy the world a Coke with a display of compassion and biodiversity so giddy that it might have been rejected as too over-the-top for a "Saturday Night Live" skit. And now, as the Democrats gather in Los Angeles, early signs are that their response will be as out of character...
...from Bushies on the one side to Gorites on the other. Their plan is media-savvy and politically astute. Concurrent with the party conventions, an assortment of activists, professional pols and show-biz celebrities with populist pretensions (from stand-ups like Bill Maher to superstars like Warren Beatty) will gather for four days of speechifying, seminar giving and satirical merrymaking, all on the indisputable assumption that the national press corps (and the public) will be so starved for spectacle and spontaneity that it will lavish attention on them--and their issues. CNN and C-SPAN have expressed interest in broadcasting...
This week, as Alzheimer's researchers gather from around the globe for the giant World Alzheimer Congress in Washington, there's a dawning sense that scientists could be on the verge of stemming the epidemic. In recent years, new and startling insights into Alzheimer's have started to pour out of university, government and corporate laboratories. And thanks to an influx of interest and research dollars, the pace of discovery is accelerating. Exclaims Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, who heads the Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program at the National Institutes of Health: "An awful lot of scientists are following an awful...