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...pilots announced a disruptive ploy called "work to rule," which meant they would do all the safety checks in the pilot's manual, word-by-word, even if it delayed takeoffs and gummed up flight schedules?which is exactly what it did. Days later, a typhoon shut down Chek Lap Kok airport, totally disrupting air travel in and out of Hong Kong, and Cathay announced that the pilots' disruption only made things worse. Then the company lowered the boom, firing 49 pilots without warning?many of them union members, and some of them top organizers of the labor protest?while...
...Winners KOFI ANNAN U.N. Secretary-General gets reelected to second term with almost no discord. His simple platform: Lap-Dancing Fridays ANITA HILL David Brock apologizes for sleazing her in articles and a 1993 book. Anita celebrates by beating him senseless?then apologizing SHEIK HASINA Bangladeshi Prime Minister finishes full term in office, the first ever in country's history. Holds last-minute coup "for old times' sake...
...Thursday morning's edition of the New York Times, a Chandra Levy story appears on page A-22: "POLICE ASK CONGRESSMAN TO TALK ABOUT INTERN." Right next to that story is a picture of a woman wearing glasses, staring straight ahead, with her hands in her lap, and a caption that is disturbing in a different vein: "Andrea Yates in custody yesterday after calling officers to her Houston home, where her four sons and one daughter, ages 6 months to 7 years, had all apparently been drowned in a bathtub. The police said Ms. Yates had been fighting depression...
...body. On the inside, it's an unrecognizable mess of viscera, shiny pink surfaces and gloopy fat. Across the room, lead surgeon Barry Gardiner sits at a console with his head pressed into a 3D viewfinder. His fingers, looped into what look like castanets, dart about just above his lap. But the action is taking place inside the patient, where metal robot "hands" inserted through the ports follow every move of Gardiner's: sewing, clamping, cutting. "It's like being able to shrink my hands and put them places they'd never fit," the surgeon says...
...Sure, 2004 is an eternity away and plenty of people are still weary from the Florida debacle, but don't just get in the race when the last lap is beginning - then people see you as candidate of convenience. Just so you know the landscape, according to this week's TIME/CNN poll, 44% of Democrats say they'd vote for you in 2004, and 28% of all voters. That's twice as high as the next Democrat, who just happens to be your old chum Senator Hillary Clinton...