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Philadelphia artist Melina Hammer was taking a break from clanging. She sat on the grass median of the Parkway, joining others in a late-afternoon languor. They had been marching and rallying for more almost six hours that balmy Sunday...
...making the set-change into a well-choreographed running joke, the designers hammer down the last great Ex pitfall and keep the show flowing and the audience on edge...
...valueless options. This has always been a highly volatile industry, but recent events have been on the scale of a virtual earthquake. Here's a sample of the casualty list for just two days last week: More than a third of Seattle-based Hardware.com's workers went under the hammer. Furniture.com in Framingham, Mass., laid off 80 employees--that's 41% of its work force. Streaming video site Pseudo.com axed 58 jobs in New York City. Planned IPOs were canned by firms including Furniture.com electronics site 800.com in Portland, Ore., and video-delivery site Kozmo.com in New York City. BBQ.com...
...National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute and the project's unofficial head. "Let's try it," said Collins--and at those words Patrinos knew that a longstanding scientific feud finally had a chance of being resolved. For months, Collins had been under pressure to hammer out his differences with J. Craig Venter, the prickly CEO of Celera Genomics, which was running its own independent genome-sequencing project--differences over who should get the credit for this scientific milestone; over whose genome sequence was more complete, more accurate, more useful; over the free exchange of what...
...hand-to-hand combat in half a dozen or so key states, Gore strategists say, and that is where they think their candidate will have the advantage. The terrain of issues varies--guns in New Jersey, the economy in Michigan, the environment in California--and the plan is to hammer each one hard enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange riptides of this election" that will determine its outcome, says a Gore strategist. At the Bush camp, ever more confident and ever more disdainful of all things Gore, no one is intimidated...