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Thus while brokers are heralding the birth of a new growth stock, scientists are more circumspect. Says Walter Miller, a University of California researcher: "To buy stock in these companies right now would require an enormous leap of faith and an assumption about which company will be most successful." Nevertheless, investors are expected to rush to grab the first shares of Genentech...
...tepid compositions from her last LP, Night Rains. Worse, Ian turned over the spotlight several times to her guitarist, Scott Zito, whose cliched rock star showboating was difficult to endure. Ian went through a ficult to endure. Ian went through a few of the motions herself, essaying an awkward leap or two in her high heels...
...cadet is required to run the obstacle course. They call it the O.C. in public, "the suck" in private: cadets must do a belly crawl for 20 feet, jump a gymnastic horse, climb one wall, do the monkey bars, go feet first through a tire, do the parallel bars, leap another wall, take more monkey bars, climb a rope, carry a medicine ball around a 1/12 of a mile track, do the same with a baton and run a final half-lap. All in three minutes and 41 seconds. If you don't pass, you do it again...
...security. Or they might pose as mediators and win a major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm its way in as guarantor of a steady oil flow, it has taken a gigantic strategic leap forward. It's a worst-case scenario that is by no means inconceivable...
Much of what Rifkin puts forward in Entropy has a chillingly familiar ring. In his effort to make a grand, holistic leap to an integrated world view--"Here is the point where science joins metaphysics and ethics"--Rifkin has sacrificed a good measure of substance. But when he stops taking on great thinkers in three-page chapters and starts focusing on specifics, Entropy begins to suck you in, and the simple appeal of the entropy world view penetrates the rhetoric. Essentially, the moral equivalent of war in an entropic world view is peace. Warfare, and its preparation, are the most...