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...implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed the Kremlin to show some flexibility on verification, in the hope of winning a ban on future tests of such Star Wars technology...
...concern us," says Grant Winterton, Coca-Cola's regional manager for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The beverage titan knows the risks firsthand. Coca-Cola invested $800 million in the 1990s to build 11 plants in Russia and an extensive distribution system. The company's fortunes took a severe knock in 1998 when Russia was hit by a debt crisis and a massive devaluation of its currency. But since then, Coca-Cola's Russian operations have grown back to profitability, Winterton says, and it has half of Russia's $1.9 billion carbonated-soft-drink market. Thus, concludes Winterton, "the opportunity...
...information about Harvard. Every paper in the world wants to cover Larry Summers’ comments about women in the sciences. But only The Crimson wrote about the string of indecent assaults facing women around campus last year. We were accused of being insensitive when we sent reporters to knock on the doors of the victims, but hearing from them helped other students know vital information about how to protect themselves—where the assault had occurred, what the victims had been doing at the time, and how they got away from their attackers. This was doubly important because...
Anchored by Offsay’s offense and junior Robbie Burmeister’s steadfast play in goal, Harvard was able to knock off its competition and bolster its record enough to make it to Northerns...
...infused his work with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...