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Maxwell spends eight hours a day in P Tunnel, a shaft resembling a semifinished subway excavation 1,300 feet below Rainier Mesa. A narrow-gauge electric locomotive takes workers into the tunnel, which ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall...
...Prime Minister--elect interrupted an hour-long meeting with TIME on Friday to take a call of congratulations from George W. Bush. Two days earlier, Italy's Supreme Court confirmed Romano Prodi's narrow April 10 victory over Silvio Berlusconi for the job. In his first interview since his victory was sealed, Prodi, 66, talked to Jeff Israely about why the U.S. has nothing to fear, his plans for cementing the coalition, and his feisty rival...
With such a narrow victory, do you fear your coalition could quickly disintegrate? No. With the close result, there's been an immediate consolidation of the coalition. When there's a narrow majority, you have to coordinate your moves carefully...
...offering professional skills that are-even in a country of 1.3 billion people-in relatively short supply. But as China continues to grow, and the country continues to educate its people to meet the demands of a market economy, the window of opportunity for Chinese Americans will begin to narrow. Daniel Shih believes that has already started to happen. A Taiwan native who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, Shih, 54, was president of Motorola China from 2003 till last year, managing over 10,000 people. He says the days when Chinese Americans could go to China and write their...
...plate, with two on to retire the side.Matt Vance staked the Crimson to a 2-1 lead in the third inning with a two-run double. HARVARD 1, BROWN 0The most striking evidence of supernatural intervention came on the final play of the Crimson’s narrow victory in the crisp opener. With Harvard clinging to the slimmest of leads and runners on the corners with two outs, speedy Brown center fielder Steve Daniels chopped a high ground ball up the middle. The ball ricocheted off the glove of pitcher Shawn Haviland and fortuitously bounced over to Stoeckel...