Word: inners
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...race for the New York's Senate seat is now between a first lady from Washington (or Illinois or Arkansas) and a New Yorker not many New Yorkers have even heard of before. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani finally heeded the advice of probably just about everyone but his inner pugilist and on Friday dropped out of the race he'd never even officially entered. Citing his prostate cancer, and not his marital chaos, as a force that had made him reassess his priorities, an emotional Giuliani waxed philosophical for a while - "I used to think the core...
...kids died by gunshot. But highly publicized shootings like those at Columbine have changed perceptions. A recent TIME/Discovery Channel poll showed that 70% of parents feel violence in schools has increased. What's more, Americans no longer see gun threats against kids as a problem confined to inner cities. While violent crime has fallen sharply in urban areas--down 10% from 1997 to 1998--it has slipped just 1% in suburbia...
They are curiously contemporary symbols of technology--these anonymous, alienated warriors who have been simultaneously building and tearing down the architecture of the most amazing subculture on the planet: the Internet and the World Wide Web. The members of this brainy, quarrelsome culture understand better than anyone else the inner workings of the systems that now run the world. They are perhaps the first group of young people to know so much more than the adults ostensibly responsible for them...
...patient's ear. And Abiomed's AbioCor uses a small transmitter outside the skin to beam radio waves for conversion to electricity inside. Designers have also found ingenious ways to have their hearts do the actual pumping: the AbioCor is essentially a sphere within a sphere, with the inner ball scuttling back and forth...
...Though more is set to be revealed in a domestic-policy address to the Duma on Wednesday, it's far from clear whether Putin will protect the interests of the oligarchs who got rich off Yeltsin's reforms and then bought their way into his inner circle. Putin is expected to strengthen tax collection, which may not please the money men who signed off on his rise to power, but the extent to which he'll challenge their grip on political and economic power remains an open question. The think tank preparing his economic package is composed mostly of highly...