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...Overnight Minnesota will be transformed from corn belt to money belt. Gigantic glass skyscrapers will rise in downtown St. Paul, home of the nation's wealthiest state legislature, and as the money floods in, Minnesotans will look for acquisitions: IBM, UPS, USX, GTE, Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
...nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and garner tons of free media exposure. Then watch your jeans, which most teens wouldn't have been caught dead in a few months ago, become black-market subversive overnight...
...other cadet remained overnight in the infirmary, where Faulkner, still unable to hold down even a few crackers, was fed intravenously. She remained in the infirmary until Friday. By then Citadel spokesman Colonel Terry Leedom was announcing that for Faulkner, trying to make up for missing Hell Week would be like "entering the Indianapolis 500 on the 25th...
...largest stockholder of Capital Cities/ABC, brokered the buyout and saw the 20 million shares that Berkshire had acquired for $345 million a decade ago surge to a value of $2.3 billion as a result of the deal. The merger raised the value of the investment by $400 million overnight...
With the discovery of fission," C.P. Snow once wrote, "physicists became, almost overnight, the most important military resource a nation-state could call upon." The unleashing of the awesome destructive power of the atom turned physicists into politicians and politicians into physicists. Scientists were forced to reckon with the repercussions of what they had wrought, while political and military leaders had to comprehend the power they held at their fingertips. In Richard Rhodes' epic and fascinating Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster; 731 pages; $32.50), a sequel to his Pulitzer prizewinning The Making of the Atomic...