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Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...
...whole reactor conks out 20 to 25 times a year. The graphite casing that holds the nuclear rods is swelling by nearly an inch a year, and will collide with the overhead shielding by the middle of the next decade. Yet since Hanford is a federally owned weapons maker, it is not subject to the safety standards that the Government imposed on commercial nuclear plants...
...Toni Kahlbacher, a Kitzbuhel snowplow maker, seems to have found a use for the tainted tipple. Kahlbacher mixed the wine with road salt to produce a concoction that melts ice more effectively than salt alone. That should delight both Agriculture officials and the Ministry of Public Construction, which estimates that clearing winter roads will take a third less salt thanks to the polluted wine...
Most stunning was the news that the SEC had subpoenaed 15 employees of Shearson Lehman Brothers, including its chairman Peter Cohen. The agency is investigating the $482 million buyout of Sheller-Globe, a Toledo maker of auto parts, by a group that included Shearson, the investment arm of American Express. Sheller-Globe's shares surged just before the buyout was made public, rising from 28 3/8 on Jan. 10 to 44 on Feb. 19. That sort of sudden movement in a stock often suggests that illegal insider trading may have taken place...
...proved time and again that it can overcome adversity: it speedily recovered from the 1973 OPEC oil shock, even though it imports virtually all its energy supplies. And, of course, the economy was all but re-created after World War II. Says Kazuo Sano, president of Sano Manufacturing, a maker of audio parts: "I can't believe Japan won't come through this one. This is a time for great patience while we wait for the answer." While searching for the answer, Sano and his countrymen may have to go through the same kind of wrenching transition that Japanese competition...