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...Greenspan's critics, who drew blood for the first time in years after the Fed's last interest-rate hike had dramatic consequences (Greenspan denies being wrong about fighting phantom inflation while tech stocks crashed to earth all around him), will never let him live it down. And when the Greenspan-adoration bubble bursts, it'll make bigger global economic news than the NASDAQ...
...rest, however, is not so clear-cut. The recount, we are reminded, did not include the 1,840 ballots where voters cleanly punched holes assigned to no one, including 736 punched in the hole directly beneath Bush's name and 1,017 beneath Gore's. This phantom margin, apparently created by confused or distracted or perhaps just not very bright voters, would be, of course, enough to secure a Gore victory. If, that is, we were in the habit of counting votes next to or beneath or slightly to the left of where voters are supposed to register their vote...
...standards rest on less than hard science, the methods for determining whether a cell phone meets them look even more arbitrary. The testing procedure involves beaming radio waves into a "phantom"--or stand-in for a human head--and measuring the amount of energy absorption. The results hinge on how near the radiation source is to the phantom and just where it is pointed. Yet there is no agreed-upon method for conducting these tests--an astonishing omission that the IEEE and its European counterpart hope to remedy this year. "Until there is a single, uniform measuring standard...
...Cuba and gets in a fight with journalists. As all brave reporters would, they react by running like scared rabbits 'N SYNC Boy band to be Jedi in next Star Wars film, only to get blown up in seconds. And just like that, George Lucas makes up for Phantom Menace ADOLF HITLER Evil dictator deposed as world's most hated man by bin Laden. Not to worry, he still holds a slight lead on world's most hated facial hair...
...M.I.T., Ray Kurzweil acquired the nickname the Phantom because he tended to skip class to work on his inventions. His disappearing act paid off. Earlier this year President Clinton presented the native New Yorker, 52, with the National Medal of Technology--a sort of cyber-Nobel Prize. Kurzweil's eclectic career and propensity for combining science with practical--often humanitarian--applications have inspired comparisons with Thomas Edison...