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Mount Kisco is 54 minutes on the train from New York City, and something less than thoroughly in the city's grasp. It used to be, not so long ago, "the country." Now it's certainly a commuter suburb, but in its hilliness and leafiness and in its sense of self as the center of Northern Westchester, it keeps a psychic arm's length...
...make available as much liquidity to fellow banks as is necessary to keep the system functioning, and many expect a half-point Fed cut to aid that effort in the coming days. But with the damage so close to home, giving investors and traders a few extra days to grasp the long-term impact of this disaster may be helpful in avoiding a panic-induced rupture...
Bustamante had refined his techniques sufficiently by 1997 to grasp a single protein and, applying forces only a trillionth as strong as those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...
...wall is a fractured and fading memory. Great slabs of it stand in museums all over the world. I've watched kids pass hurriedly by these ugly, jagged remnants covered with the graffiti from a joyous moment of freedom. It is no longer so easy to grasp the wall's meaning. Junior high school students now read about the Berlin Wall in their history texts. But it was built, flaunted, condemned and destroyed before they were born. But in my time, it was far more than just a barricade, far more than a mere symbol, it was a a very...
...military will be unable to help Megawati where it matters most: in the economy. The new President has shown little grasp of finance. An ex-minister recalls spending a night crunching a lengthy technical report to two pages for her. "She couldn't even get through the first few paragraphs," he lamented. "Then she asked if there were any new projects where she could cut the ribbon." Foreign investors are concerned that Megawati may appoint her husband's business cronies rather than solid professionals to the government's key economic jobs. Indonesia owes $140 billion in foreign debt, inflation...