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...asset, the Grasberg open-pit mine, developed under the auspices of the Suharto regime. A giant crater scooped out of a mountainside in the jungles of Irian Jaya, on the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, the $60 billion mother lode contains one of the world's largest single deposits of copper and gold...
...since Suharto's ouster a year ago, Freeport's future in Indonesia has been called into question. The company's status and the allocation of its royalty payments have become a campaign issue. The company has denied any illegal behavior and notes that as one of Indonesia largest taxpayers, "it would be unusual if [we] did not maintain a close business relationship with the government of Indonesia and its officials, including then President Suharto." Fair enough, but in April, Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on $3.3 billion worth of Freeport debt and preferred stock, citing the firm's ties...
...most elegant displays of the power of the Internet to be harnessed for what experts call distributed computing. "The largest supercomputer you can buy has 9,000 Pentium processors in it," says SETI@home director David Anderson. If everyone who has downloaded his program uses it, he points out, "we have what's equivalent to a box with 400,000 Pentiums...
They've even thrived on their own disunity, which has been building steadily. When it looked as if the team were going to miss play-offs, Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts demoted longtime general manager Ernie Grunfeld, who had brought in Sprewell as well as the league's largest payroll. This was partly to appease Van Gundy, who was feuding with Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support...
...little too radical for some. Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, New York City's largest Reform synagogue, says that in elevating ritual to parity with ethics, the guidelines constitute "a distortion of the uniqueness of Reform Judaism." Since the principles are not compulsory, they will continue to be debated by Reform Jews everywhere. But after the measure passed in Pittsburgh, the "for" voters linked arms with the "against" voters, and all joined in the traditional prayer song Shehechiyanu. The words are Hebrew. Everybody knew them...