Word: handiworks
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...plotters had succeeded, their handiwork would have traumatized the entire U.S. as well. In Washington, President Clinton said the American people should feel "an enormous sense of pride" that the terrorist plot had been foiled. In New York City, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White noted that Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, accused ringleader of the bombmakers, had been quoted as boasting, "We can get you anytime!" (He uttered these words after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.) Said White: "Law enforcement's answer is, 'No, you cannot' . . . We will not permit the likes of these defendants to terrorize...
...thing is that the handful of large companies -- Aetna, CIGNA, MetLife, Prudential and Travelers -- that broke away from an organization called the Health Insurance Industry of America to form the Alliance for Managed Competition are also gearing up to oppose what is supposed to be their handiwork. Their argument: Instead of trying to institute a true managed-competition system, the Administration is opting for an unworkable combination of that and a system known as single-payer. Under a genuine single-payer system, like the one that operates in Canada, the government is the only insurer and pays all doctor...
SCIENCE: Copying Nature's Handiwork...
...prettiness and practicality is sumptuously on view in "The Art of the Shoe," a 30-year retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition, which will run through June 7, is a shrine to Ferragamo's shoes, with dramatic spotlights illuminating the glass cases containing his handiwork. The 199 shoes in those cases were chosen from among 10,000 in storage at Ferragamo headquarters in Florence. The Los Angeles setting is appropriate: Ferragamo got his start as a custom shoemaker while living in California between 1914 and 1927. It was Hollywood that first encouraged him to create...
...beyond the sheer volume of users these days, the MAC suffers other problems as well. For example, equipment frequently breaks or, worse yet, disappears--no doubt the handiwork if ingenious thieves who think they can accomplish more with a single 25-pound dumbbell in their room than with the entire...