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...fact, combating terrorism was never one of Clinton’s top priorities. For example, he tried to minimize the role of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism by attempting to chuck it into the larger Bureau of Narcotics, Terrorism and Crime. This merger would have only diminished the significance of the office, submerging it in a bureaucratic morass and depriving it of the special attention and adequate funding it needed...
Until Radcliffe’s merger with Harvard on Oct. 1, 1999, all female undergraduate were officially students of Radcliffe College...
Until Radcliffe’s merger with Harvard on Oct. 1, 1999, all female undergraduate were officially students of Radcliffe College...
...course, that sidesteps the question of whether HP and Compaq can successfully merge without leaving the floor slick with blood. Most large-scale tech-firm mergers have been hideous disasters. Compaq's last acquisition, the Digital Equipment Corp., was a textbook example of how not to do it. Good products died, top talent fled and resentment lingered for years after management cut 15,000 jobs. Now HP plans, upon the merger, to lay off 15,000; it also hopes for cost savings of $2.5 billion. A team of 500 is working full time on integrating the companies, though most...
Stelarc believes this kind of merger between man and machine will soon make its way from performance art venues into our living rooms. "Just as the Internet provides interactive ways of displaying information," he says, "it may allow unexpected ways of accessing the body itself. What will be interesting is when we can miniaturize these technologies and implant them directly into the body...