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Although the University has developed resourcesfor Asian research and was a pioneer in Asianstudies, it has not yet created a network ofcontacts as extensive as those it has in Europeand some other areas, Fineberg said...
...west, in the Washington with more salmon than lobbyists and more independents than either Democrats or Republicans, people do not like to be told what to do. It could be the pioneer spirit, or maybe they've got a complex about practically being squeezed off the map of the U.S. In any case, they could not have two more appropriate candidates going at each other in the U.S. Senate race, because neither one can be called conventional...
...stone but space itself. Australia had no Mississippi or Missouri, no fertile center; explorers went out into it, found little but desert, and died. The literary myth of its landscape, created by writers from the 1850s on, was at best hardscrabble survival--not America's lavish reward to the pioneer. Australia didn't rhyme with many words, but "failure...
...devote more time to his new gig. The network has coaxed Evening News anchor Dan Rather to be an occasional contributor as well (he will continue to anchor both the Evening News and the weekly 48 Hours). CBS has also pursued ABC's Chris Wallace, son of 60 Minutes pioneer Mike, though it now appears unlikely that ABC will let him out of his contract. Current CBS correspondents Bob Simon and Vicki Mabrey are also expected to join the team. (A notable candidate left out of the mix: Bryant Gumbel, whose magazine show, Public Eye, flopped last season.) Mike Wallace...
...such low prices has spawned even more consortiums eager to be top dogs in the satellite-Internet communications business. The most ambitious venture is Teledesic, founded in 1990 by deep-pocket investors including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (with a 13.7% stake), and cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, who is the chairman and co-chief executive. Motorola, after a frosty initial reaction to the project, dropped its own system, Celestri, and joined in with $750 million for a 26% stake. Once jeered as the most starry-eyed start-up ever, the $9 billion Teledesic project has lately...