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...Speed," you'll think your on just that. Keanu Reeves makes his actionflick debut and was heralded by many, unexpectedly, as incredible. Perhaps Keanu has finally found his true calling. Harrison Ford, look out, because there's someone leaner going for your...
Fallows dismisses Tokyo's current economic downturn as nothing more than a temporary setback, similar to those that followed the huge boost in oil prices in 1972 and the rapid appreciation of the yen in 1985. Both times the Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will...
...make new, improved plants and animals. Over the years they've put corn genes in rice, trout genes in catfish, chicken genes in potatoes, even firefly genes in tobacco (yielding a plant that actually glowed in the dark). A few years ago, Department of Agriculture researchers tried to produce leaner pork by splicing a human gene into a pig embryo. What they got was a cross-eyed porker with crippling arthritis and a strangely wrinkled face...
...tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built laboratories. With a leaner and meaner fighting machine of about 400,000 troops, Iraq still has the largest army in the region...
...musical guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy at the tapings has perceptibly and sharply mounted to a proudly fevered level since times of leaner demand, which were as recent as January. A good portion of the throng mobbing the NBC studio area must now be turned away each night. Despite media speculation that Conan should fear the warm breath of Greg Kinnear or Jon Stewart on his neck, NBC firmly stands behind Conan...