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...School students were hostile and on his side. He has them in the palm of his hand," Hennefeld said. "From my perspective the B-School is entirely pro-business and does not consider the labor perspective. That's something we are trying to change...
...Gate suicides. They apparently began on the weekend of March 22-23, around the time that Hale-Bopp got ready to make its closest approach to Earth. That weekend also witnessed a full moon and, in parts of the U.S., a lunar eclipse. For good measure it included Palm Sunday, the beginning of the Christian Holy Week. Shrouds placed on the corpses were purple, the color of Passiontide, or, for New Agers, the color of those who have passed to a higher plane...
After years of confounding customers with a tsunami of new rates, packages and plans, big telephone companies like AT&T and MCI may have finally met their match: PhoneMiser. The palm-size PC adapter, below, links a personal computer to your telephone line and then uses software to calculate which of dozens of carriers offers the best deal at any given moment. All your phones on one line (and fax machines and Internet connections) can be simultaneously tied in to the program, which takes about a second to find the cheapest alternative and place the call. The system...
...those visions and their successors in Christianity's first millennium, a colorful, sometimes contradictory mystical vocabulary of heaven emerged. It was a garden, a city, a kingdom, a temple or, less often, a nut, a womb, a navel. It featured buildings and streets of precious metals and jewels, doves, palm trees (first discerned by the church father Lactantius), singing stones (a late borrowing from Celtic myth), white clothing, milk, honey, wine, olive oil, harps, fountains and ladders. It also developed a set of intractable controversies...
DIED. COLONEL JOHN R. BOYD, 70, military theorist; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Air Force pilot's discovery that a plane's agility, not its speed, was a key factor in aerial combat shaped the quick-response design...