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...shop business, firms like Petco helped spark a boom in part by changing people's conception of smelly, helter-skelter pet stores, according to Marshall Meyers, executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. After folks found that they adored their new cockatiel, they started going to local shops for accessories unavailable at the chains, he says. The hostility between the independents and the chains has abated somewhat, replaced by a realization that David and Goliath can help each other. Want a hedgehog? You'll have to visit a local pet shop--the big chains haven...
McPeak's notion was to produce a smart bomb that could be wedded to the constantly orbiting global-positioning-system (GPS) satellites so that bad visibility would not hamper targeting. His idea became a reality in 1998, when the Pentagon bought its first JDAM--joint direct-attack munition--from Boeing. By scrapping complicated procurement rules for this project, the Pentagon was able to keep the price of a JDAM at $27,000, pocket change compared with the $1 million price tag on a single cruise missile like the ones used in the Gulf War. JDAM tail kits are fastened onto...
...take over that role," he says, so SFS Media plans to produce its own TV programs and webcasts. The major labels seem unsure whether to regard these orchestral maneuvers as a threat or an opportunity. Bill Holland, divisional director of Universal Classics and Jazz, talks of possible future joint ventures, while BMG executives mutter about the "ripple effect" of the new royalties agreements. They'd better make up their minds soon. With new labels imminent from other ensembles, the bandwagon is rolling - and the upstarts are beginning to call their own tune...
...ordered his Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to investigate. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a crowded McDonald's in Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river near their joint border. The Lebanese project will draw water from a tributary of the Hasbani River, which feeds the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater reservoir. KENYA Breaking Up President Daniel Arap Moi's KANU party split over his choice of successor. The party, which has ruled Kenya for 40 years...
...Southern was appointed to a joint professorship in Afro-American studies and music by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One year later she became the second chair in the history of the fledgling Afro-American studies department, a position which she held until...