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...this day two decades ago, Polish patriots took on the world’s largest army and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, eventually toppling the Communist regime in Warsaw. They achieved this feat not through violent revolution, but through a series of negotiations that became famous as the Round Table talks. The defeat of Communism in Poland—which was soon followed by its total collapse in Eastern Europe and, in 1991, the Soviet Union itself—should properly be regarded as one of the greatest triumphs in European history...
Massachusetts General Hospital received its largest donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs...
...cowboy theme starts on the journey up Highway 2 from Bangkok, near the town of Pak Chong. At the Chokchai Steakhouse, tel: (66-4) 432 8445, run by one of the country's largest farms, carnivores can dig in to dry-aged T-bone and spicy jaew sauce made with garlic, chili and ginger, or pick up disks of sweetened beef jerky for the ride north. Freshly churned ice cream is available for dessert. And just as the American West has its Californian vineyards, so this vicinity is home to several Thai wineries, which offer up passable plonk...
...headlong into massive investments in new factories, leaving them vulnerable to supply gluts and economic slowdowns. Yet like mosquitoes to one of those electric zappers, chipmakers make the same mistake again and again, creating a binge-and-purge business pattern that occurs with sickening regularity. Of the top 10 largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory chips, or DRAMs, in 1990, only one - Samsung Electronics of South Korea - remains on that list today...
...crisis has already claimed one major victim. In late January, Germany's Qimonda, the world's fifth-largest DRAM maker, filed for bankruptcy. Several other chipmakers have sought emergency aid. In late December, the creditors of South Korea's Hynix, the world's second-biggest DRAM maker, agreed to provide $600 million of aid to the company, including new loans, as its losses mounted...