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...York is the front line. On the seventh floor of the bank's Italianate building on Wall Street, six currency traders carry out the Treasury's instructions. Hunched over a circular desk crowded with jangling phones, they buy and sell dollars at U.S. banks while glancing regularly at overhead monitors that flash currency transactions. "The Fed people just love intervening," says a former Treasury official. "They're like little kids with...
...began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA officials were determined to make this one good. Stretching the agency's own rules, which forbid blast-offs in the rain or through clouds that could generate lightning, they spotted a thinned-out area of clouds overhead and ordered a launch. As Discovery burned its way into the mist, Commander Joe Engle laconically described his surroundings: "That's a black cloud...
...villagers working in paddy fields five miles south of the city of Iri were shocked to see a two-engine bomber circling overhead. It tried to land in a field and hit a farmer, killing him instantly, before coming to a halt a few yards short of a house. The Chinese pilot, Xiao Tianyan, 33, shouted for help; the navigator was dead. The radioman walked away with light bruises and asked to be sent home to China. Thus ended Navy Pilot Xiao's dramatic escape in his Chinese-built version of a Soviet Ilyushin Il-28. The pilot said...
Even with the steep overhead, smart buildings have no trouble attracting tenants. To stay competitive, owners of older, dumber structures are retrofitting them, bringing in computers and sensors and tearing out walls and ceilings to install the wiring necessary to raise their building intelligence quotients. The Park Avenue Atrium in New York City, for example, was stripped down to its structural steel during remedial reworking...
...connected to a gay night club next door so you'll find a mixture of men dancing with men, women with women, and men with women. If you want more emphasis on the band than the dancing, check out The Channel. Planes departing Logan Airport frequently roar overhead and you'll have to trek over a bridge from South Station to see some good rock and post-punk bands here. Those 18 and over can get into New Musik nights on Tuesday, but on other nights it's open to only those 21 and over. The Stompers play Friday June...