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...hour and half and thinking about everything but studying--from my friends that are graduating, to House formals, to Wednesday's episode of "Dawson's Creek." The sun streaming through the windows was definitely over-powering the neat study schedule I had planned and carefully pencilled into my planner...
...policies. The following year, he was disgraced as a rightist, thrown out of the Communist Party and spent some years in the northeast tending livestock until Deng Xiaoping began looking for people to help carry out his economic reforms. Zhu was rehabilitated in 1978, and rose as an economic planner, largely on his own merit, since he had no base of support in the army, party or bureaucracy. "Everyone knew Zhu, not just for being efficient and honest, but primarily because of his rightist background," says Zhu Xingqing (no relation), a journalist in Shanghai in the 1980s when...
...this phase calls for attacks sufficient to break the will of the Serb leader. But some Pentagon officers wonder how wrecking Yugoslavia's military headquarters will do anything to curb violence against the Kosovars. "The Serbs in the field are just thugs on a rampage," says a Navy planner. "They don't need guidance on how to knock down doors and kill people." The Pentagon is no longer talking about an "air campaign" of a few brisk weeks but a war of attrition. White House officials now say the air attacks could last another 20--20!--weeks. "We'll continue...
...eighth-graders from across the country will compete in the finals of the annual future-cities contest, judged by a panel of engineers. The contest's software of choice? Sim City, of course. "They should introduce this game to all classrooms," says Hayes Lord, a New York City planner...
...much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution: mutual funds, in which, as Cambie notes, diversification is done...