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Harvard's council members who attended the conference, which was held in Cambridge, suggested that Harvard drop its membership to the I.C. in the near future...
...overpower its stodgy utility rivals. "What other industry in America still sends agents into your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...
Even now, a week after news of the achievement first flew around the globe, traces of astonishment linger in the air like a contrail. The landmark paper published late last week in the journal Nature confirmed what the headlines had been screaming for days: researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, had indeed pulled off what many experts thought might be a scientific impossibility. From a cell in an adult ewe's mammary gland, embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology...
Some years passed, and then we got a tip. A garbled cell call told us of a private boarding school and ranch near Bozeman, Montana, where "students" were either exceptionally attractive, exceptionally intelligent, exceptionally devious or all three. So-called school employees signed draconian pre-agreements barring them from revealing anything. One had escaped, garnered our cell number from a local Webzine ad and whispered instructions as dogs barked in the background...
...Dartboard got wind of J.D. Salinger's plans to publish a new book. We were suspicious: why had the reclusive writer decided to publish for the first time in more than thirty years? Literary junkies that we are, we couldnt resist trying to track down more information for our near-barren Salinger file...