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...Bush insistence on an across-the-board that helps rich folks too - which Gore upped to $500 billion after hearing about extra surplus dough coming down the fiscal pipe. Gore's even going to try to sell an enviro-business angle to woo corporate donors, in which cleaning the planet can be good business...
Kurt and others like him took great risks because they believed that if they could tell the "civilized" world what was going on in the most remote parts of the planet, the world would do something. Bosnia proved them right. If only Kurt had taken a different turn...
...TRUTH IS ONLINE NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has been taking high-resolution color pictures of the surface of the red planet since 1997. Now NASA is releasing the first photographs to the public online at www.msss.com/moc_gallery all 20,000 of them, and they're gorgeous. The south polar cap, above, frosted with carbon dioxide, looks like the swirl in the center of a toffee. So much for all those face-on-Mars rumors...
Having done so, the most powerful monetary movers and shakers on the planet invariably line up for an informal boardroom lunch. Reaching for paper plates and plasticware, the FOMC members help themselves to a buffet that last week featured cold cuts, soft drinks, salads and chocolate-chip cookies--a special favorite of many members. Then they headed back to their offices to watch Wall Street's reaction, while bankers across the country adjusted the loan-rate signs in their windows...
...astronomical valuations. Qualcomm, a leader in the digital wireless space, has watched its stock soar nearly 3000% in little more than a year. Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, which was floundering in the early 1990s, has ridden the wireless juggernaut to become the eighth most valuable company on the planet (see accompanying story). Palm Inc. and AT&T's wireless tracking stocks were two of the most anticipated IPOs this year...