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...PACK A set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff...
...could scarcely have found a more muscular partner in China than Legend. The computer maker dominates the country's home-PC market, with a 40% share. (Sales totaled $2.2 billion last year.) Legend's chief financial officer, Mary Ma, the company's main negotiator on the deal, says the Chinese firm initiated the courtship. Legend, she says, was convinced that, with the WTO's open market pending, it needed a sophisticated foreign partner to help differeniate itself in the market...
Stalking these massive creatures were predators of equally awesome aspect: muscular jaguars, saber-toothed cats and thick-bodied dire wolves with bone-crunching teeth. Most horrible of all were the short-faced bears, huge animals that weighed twice as much as modern grizzlies and could chase down and kill anything except perhaps a full-grown mastodon. But about 13,000 years ago, not long after the first humans arrived in the New World, all but a few of these remarkable creatures--collectively known as megafauna--had vanished...
...from Morris John Kuper Jr., who told investigators to check out activities in a parking lot a block away from the Murrah Federal Building about an hour before it was blown apart. Kuper later testified that he had seen a man resembling McVeigh walking with a dark-haired, muscular companion--a description that matches those by other witnesses of a man who came to be known as John Doe 2. Investigators eventually concluded the mystery accomplice didn't exist and tried to disprove some of the reported sightings. Kuper, for instance, was discredited by prosecutors for not having come forward...
...Arafat, for his part, is touring Europe hoping to rally support for his call for a more muscular and simultaneous implementation of all of the Mitchell Report's recommendations (as opposed to the step-by-step approach preferred by the Israelis) and for the Europeans to play a greater mediating role. But while they'll cluck sympathetically at his plight, the Europeans are for the most part making clear to Arafat that they're not going to be his cavalry, and that the prospects for a cease-fire depend on him, Sharon and the Bush administration...