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...land skis, I could train during lunchtime in Central Park practically every day all summer, and the proposition became significantly less ridiculous. All I had to do was get over the slight drawback of making a spectacle of myself every day. Speeding through the park at the height of summer on strange-looking wheeled units attached to Day-Glo Nordic ski boots and preposterously long poles is one of the few ways to actually attract attention in New York City. It took some time to reconcile my inherently low-key Scandinavian temperament with the whole public-spectacle thing - the unself...
...private-public partnerships aimed at resolving the global health crisis created by drug-resistant malaria and TB. At present, neither disease is a tremendous problem in the U.S. or Western Europe, but that happy situation may not last forever, especially where TB is concerned. In 1992, at the height of a mini-epidemic in New York City, 3,800 new cases of TB erupted; hardest hit were AIDS sufferers and the homeless, as well as prison and hospital populations, a third of whom showed drug resistance...
...near the height of her fame in 1973 that Kennedy led a mass urination outside Lowell Hall to protest the lack of women's restrooms...
...Neill doesn't mince words: a colleague recalls introducing O'Neill to Newt Gingrich at the height of the Republican revolution. Gingrich had just launched into one of his tirades about the need for trimming entitlements when O'Neill cut him off and said, "That's the problem with you guys. As long as you're only tinkering at the margins, you'll just make things worse." A Bush official suggested last week that O'Neill, who has actually lived through a real downturn or two, may be just what the nation needs right now. Besides, he added, Bush...
...risk in New Economy investors' enthusiasm is that at the height of the market, every possible piece of good news is factored in. Then when companies whose stock sells at sky-high multiples of their earnings announce even minor setbacks, their stock gets pummeled. Last month networking powerhouse Cisco Systems announced it was setting aside $275 million in a rainy-day fund to cover missed payments from failed customers. Wall Street's reaction was a punishing 12% drop...