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...name is Phillip Sachs, and I am a figment of Baratunde's imagination. A 1997 graduate of Harvard College, I am now in my second year as an analyst for the international global strategy global management global consulting firm McBane and Company...
...most recent suicide at MIT was on March 13 of last year, when first-year Phillip C. Gale of Charlotte, N.C. jumped from a window of his 15-story dormitory...
Back in 1985, as Phillip J. Barker was chopping down trees to build a lounging shed for his dairy cows, one tree fell the wrong way and broke his neck. Doctors told him he would never walk again. But the gritty little farmer--just over five feet tall--refused to accept that prognosis. Within seven days he regained feeling in his limbs. And after 18 months of rehabilitation he was back at work on his 300-acre dairy farm here, about 40 miles northeast of Durham...
...Barkers will also challenge that 1997 sale of 280 acres of their farm at auction to local real estate developer Ossie Smith. They contend that local officials denied their eldest son, Phillip R., the right to purchase the farm at its appraised price after the foreclosure--even though he had the financing to do so. They also claim that Smith bulldozed the grave of Dorathy's father on the property--despite a court-ordered stay pending outcome of the class action. Smith refuses to comment on the allegation...
...carbon gas emissions will have increased 33 percent from 1990 levels; Kyoto requires that they be 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by then. But fulfilling the Kyoto requirements may not even be the administration's intention. "They signed the Kyoto treaty as a freebie," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They can score points with environmentalists while at the same time they're counting on the Senate to kill...