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...basic inequality,” says Abigail L. Fee ’05, who recently re-launched the dormant Students For Choice. “I live in Claverly, and I wake up, look out of my picture window and see the Fly, the Spee, the Phoenix...
...Force has a dedicated anti-fratricide cell operating out of Saudi Arabia that reviews targeting decisions for air strikes. New technologies include: 1-sq.-in. strips of glow tape stuck to U.S. troops' uniforms and visible only through rifle optics and night goggles, and tiny Phoenix Beacons, attached to vehicles and carried by soldiers, that emit a flashing infrared beam visible only through specially calibrated night-vision equipment...
...could choose doses of low-grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River Phoenix...
...parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place for everything from jobs and housing to yoga lessons...
...generally good for consumers and businesses alike if they come with productivity gains that allow companies to preserve profits even as they cut costs. So today's antideflation rhetoric seems peculiarly misguided. Indeed, the main benefactors of high prices, economist Richard Katz argues in his new book, Japanese Phoenix, are precisely the inefficient manufacturers and suppliers that have helped make Japan's economy so uncompetitive. If prices rise, these companies will be able to stay exactly as they are, instead of facing the reality that they must be more productive or die. "That is one reason," writes Katz...