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...deal reportedly had been in the works ever since last month, when German prosecutors indicted the central figure in the case, Jose Ignacio Lopez. It closes a dispute that began in March 1993, when Lopez, about to be promoted to General Motors' chief of North American operations, moved overnight to Volkswagen, along with seven other key GM executives. GM accused Lopez of stealing thousands of pages of documents and computer diskettes when he went to work for the competition. According to sources, those secrets included GM plans for a super-efficient car factory and a cost-cutting system that...
Like schools, like businesses, like governments, like nearly everyone, it seems, religious groups are rushing online, setting up church home pages, broadcasting dogma and establishing theological newsgroups, bulletin boards and chat rooms. Almost overnight, the electronic community of the Internet has come to resemble a high-speed spiritual bazaar, where thousands of the faithful--and equal numbers of the faithless--meet and debate and swap ideas about things many of us had long since stopped discussing in public, like our faith and religious beliefs. It's an astonishing act of technological and intellectual mainstreaming that is changing the character...
...they say, Rosen has said a giver can get a short meeting with the President in the White House; $10,000 to $50,000 would earn a dinner with the President at a posh Washington hotel. One Democratic business executive said Rosen even hinted at staying overnight at the White House. Rosen denies he has offered anything other than the usual dinner invitations to givers. Says he: "I have been very conservative...
...dorm rooms, even if no one's talking, trying to read with pillows temptingly few inches away is not easy. Worse still, Harvard's heating authorities, who presumably retire to their own warm bedrooms each evening, have insanely decreed that room temperatures migrate down to 64 degrees overnight. It's not easy to study under three blankets...
...Babel would indicate that there are boundaries. One lesson in Genesis is that history often repeats itself. Could science get to the point where our attempts to learn could get cut off again? By turning off all the electricity, God could throw us back to the Stone Age overnight. KENNETH BERRY Riverview, New Brunswick Via E-mail...