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...continued terrorist attacks on Israelis [WORLD, Dec. 24]: When will the world realize that Yasser Arafat lacks the will, the courage and the power to effect a meaningful peace with Israel? To label Israelis terrorists because they retaliate in kind for the murderous acts of militant Palestinians is the height of irrational thinking. When Arafat walked away from the 2000 Camp David peace process, it was positive proof that he was a tool of the radicals who control him. ALBERT E. DENNY Baltimore...
...biggest problem, as it so often is, is money. The dry rot at the CDC labs in Atlanta--where leaky walls are repaired with duct tape and a sputtering power system caused a blackout during the height of anthrax testing last fall--is only the most conspicuous part of the problem. Funding throughout the agency is so meager that members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service--a sort of disease SWAT team--cannot afford even such basic field equipment as two-way pagers...
...Michael Dell retorts that "what standards do is drive out inefficiencies. Dell is in the business of productivity, and that's a good business." He adds that "there's plenty of innovation within the standards." Even if his idea of a snazzy innovation is chopping a foot off the height of his servers so that they fit more easily through customers' doors...
...pipe as he recounted, as if to the grandkids, the U.S. economy's bumpy journey from the "frenetic" tech investment boom of the late '90s to the "fierce and unrelenting" decline in same that, sharpened by Sept. 11, has landed us in our current predicament. Considering the height of our heights, this recession - if indeed 2002 is a recovery year - has been a "relatively mild downturn...
Harvard will look to overwhelm Princeton with its height. The Tigers have no one who can measure up to the 6’2 Peljto or 6’3 freshman center Reka Cserny, both of whom have notched 30-point games this month...