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...Quayle found himself on a plane to Bogota, Colombia. Initially Quayle had not been keen about making the trip. Jetting off to South America while war clouds gathered in the Persian Gulf was not the sort of assignment that would show that the Vice President was "in the loop" at the White House. But George Bush insisted that his Vice President go. There was more to the trip than representing the U.S. at the inauguration of the new Colombian President...
...Wunsch Auction System opened for trading last week, linking buyers and sellers of all registered stocks directly through a personal-computer network. Brokers? Unnecessary. Floor traders? Get real. With all those hands and pockets out of the loop, the only commission involved is Wunsch's, and it is as much as 90% lower than normal commissions and fees. That has investors excited and stock exchanges worried. The exchanges, notably the N.Y.S.E., are particularly afraid of losing the big institutional investors that account for most trading. In an unavailing effort to stop the upstart system, five exchanges petitioned the Securities...
...string at exactly the same moment as a light ray traveling the longer path. In essence the ship would be moving faster than light, and under the peculiar logic of special relativity, it would thus go backward in time. For complex reasons, the ship has to make a complete loop around the string, and thus a single string will not do; there must be two strings -- passing each other at nearly the speed of light -- for the trick to work. But work it apparently does. Says Gott: "I've gotten enormous interest from other physicists and astrophysicists about this idea...
...sparkling underground railway that ferries Senators back and forth between their offices and the Capitol should be converted into a nonstop people mover remains a mystery. Built in 1912, the subway was completely refurbished in 1958; the current plan is to create a "loop" of cars that run * slowly but continuously so people can step on and off. But the old system is in no evident need of repair. Perhaps that is why no Senator will admit sponsoring this expenditure, which was added to the appropriation bill of the Senate Appropriations Committee's legislative-branch subcommittee at a session during...
...fact a carnivore, the former health-food addict starts gorging on junk. But somewhere around this point, Theroux begins a tour de force portrait of character disintegration, meticulously detailed and utterly convincing. A clearer sense of who Parker was before he fell apart might have made Chicago Loop a clearer, more uplifting admonitory tale; the scariest possibility is that the anti-hero was no one at all until he found his fate, and his destination, through violence...