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...meant for refugees in Baghdad. But the hungry Marines debated whether they should eat them themselves. They decided not to as they figured there'd be a lot of refugees where they were going. Water was down to just five boxes in the vehicle I was in. The men hadn't slept for more than an hour or two a night for five days. They were tired, hungry, dirty and frustrated. In short, they were ready to fight a battle. It looks like one will come in the next couple of days in Baghdad...
...retailers and caterers (like Ahold's subsidiary) to ensure their products get precedence over those of their competitors'. Henny de Ruiter, the chairman of the supervisory board, said the U.S. food-service subsidiary appeared to have booked these payments before they had been earned. He stressed that similar abuses hadn't been found at the company's core operations. Marco Becht, executive director of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) in Brussels, says that companies tolerate accounting problems less than they used to, and that the ousting of the two executives "may be a case of old-fashioned European corporate...
...Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them all. This kind of versatile talent I just hadn't figured...
...While he did rely on X-ray crystallographs for hints to what was going on at the molecular level, Pauling depended more heavily on scaled-up models he built by hand, using his deep knowledge of the ways atoms can bond together. Cavendish scientists, relying mostly on X rays, hadn't bothered to consult their colleagues in the chemistry department about what was or wasn't possible for atoms to do, and became hopelessly sidetracked...
...moment, though, the men were stuck with "Rosy's" data, and Watson briefed Crick as soon as possible on what he had seen and heard. But Watson, overconfident to the point of arrogance, hadn't bothered to take notes. "If a subject interested me," he would write, "I could usually recollect what I needed. This time, however, we were in trouble, because I did not know enough of the crystallographic jargon." A key point was the amount of water present in Franklin's DNA samples. Watson remembered the number incorrectly...