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...seriousness, America cannot reject the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocols and the metric system. Something simply has to give. The best method for Harvard to protest our nation’s uncouth tendencies toward unilateralism is simply to get rid of the Imperial system, or—as I’m told Bush calls it in private—“the freedom system.” Surely no one would disagree that America’s domineering and swaggering use of the inch and the pound is closely linked to our nation?...
...filled up your tank. Known scientifically as "unmixed steam reforming," the process used by Dupont was invented in the U.S. But she is believed to be the first to apply it to sunflower oil. U.S. producers, who have 1.8 million acres under till and produce about 280,000 metric tons of cooking oil annually, are interested. So are producers in places like Argentina and Russia, which grow even more acres. For now, Dupont's prototype must be refined, and the cost of the process remains too high to be widely practical. But time and a few more years of rising...
...childhood is a study in contradictions: he describes how his mother showered him with gifts but couldn’t care for him because she was on the strip selling drugs; how his aunts and uncles were always home but always high; and how he learned about fractions and metric conversions, not in school but on the job. (In the title of the book, “pieces” refers to small quantities of crack measured in ounces while “weight” refers to a full kilo...
...serves as executive director of the London-based Band Aid Trust and U.S. Live Aid Foundation. At least $34 million has already been spent for famine relief, says Jenden, which provided 17,000 tons of grain, 2,000 tons of milk powder, 1,200 tons of sugar and 350 metric tons of biscuits. More than $40 million will go toward long-term development projects, such as irrigation and reforestation...
...revenue stream in addition to subscriber fees. But Sirius doesn't pay for any of the traditional audience-tracking services like Arbitron, instead surveying listeners by e-mail and phone, so Sirius can't tell advertisers how many folks are listening in a given quarter-hour, a key metric advertisers use to negotiate rates. "Our clients aren't falling over themselves to advertise on satellite radio," says Jon Mandel, chairman of the ad-buying firm MediaCom US. Karmazin says he is confident that his stars will earn their keep. "What makes the difference is content," he says in an interview...