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...Maybe I should start my own company. Maybe I'll work for a company where I own one share or a big equity stake. Maybe I'll go over to Dive and make sub sandwiches." As of Oct. 1, he is at leisure. "I'll take a 60-day pit stop -- and I'm sure I'll be incompetent at that. I want to rest and recharge, make sure there's enough traction on them wheels." Or perhaps, as he told Eisner in a friendly chat at week's end, "I'll start up a company, and later...
...bomb-grade plutonium-239, a beginner could hope to produce only a much larger, cruder device from his 18 lbs. The fissionable metal for a bomb core has to be melted down and fashioned into a virtually perfect sphere about the size of a tennis ball -- called a pit -- a tricky process that takes a well- equipped nuclear laboratory. To make the bomb reach critical mass and set off a chain reaction -- nuclear fission -- you have to make the sphere implode in on itself. That requires a bang from about 800 lbs. of conventional explosives, packed around the plutonium...
Though he is a Hutu, the former government's militia came to kill him in May because, Munyanziza says, he was not a member of the ruling party. The hit squad dumped him into a pit and threw rocks on him, but a friend rescued him. His next-door neighbor, Albert Rurangirwa, also a Hutu, is back in his house too, after fleeing in May. He learned that his father had been killed by militia, and "I don't even know where to look for my brothers and sisters." But since they all returned last month, says Munyanziza, "there have...
...networks in the air. Last week Nextel Communications, a New Jersey wireless company, gained just such a coast-to-coast system when it acquired the cellular operations of Dial Page of South Carolina plus the mobile-radio business of Motorola in deals valued at $2.7 billion. The combinations will pit Nextel, a firm with 200,000 customers, against AT&T, which agreed to pay $12.6 billion for McCaw Cellular last year. Also in the fray are Nynex and Bell Atlantic, which agreed in June to combine their cellular units...
Most probably it will be the film debut of Luko, the Bob Marley look-alike who had apparently made the Harvard T stop pit his own personal lounge. Some of the movie makers, when asked about the film, advised the curious to "go watch Luko for the next two hours" in order to get their cameo...