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...Condemns the Attacks on MCI.? Norquist, the leader of a group of rightward thinking activists who meet regularly (sometimes with White House staffers), wrote to at least one senator who was bearing down on MCI and contacted the General Services Administration, the agency that administers federal phone contracts, to plug for the company. Norquist, who blames labor unions and other telecom industry competitors for ginning up the attacks on MCI, says he believes the company should continue to benefit from government contracts as long as its performance is up to speed...
...undertake the mission may also become U.S. concerns. While the West African states have repeatedly emphasized the need for them to take responsibility for stabilizing their own region, once there are U.S. forces in the region tasked with helping the mission succeed, the expectation will grow that they will plug any gaps that emerge...
Here's some news for those who don't spend all their free time in CompUSA: USB gadgets (known as key rings) are hot. These miniature devices--typically digital cameras or MP3 players--plug directly into your USB port for easy up-and downloading. They're cute and trendy and getting more useful all the time. This summer Philips is introducing two models for Mac or PC priced from...
...cost was put at $20 billion. As Congress is given to do after announcing grand projects, it slimmed down appropriations to less than $10 billion. U.S. researchers eventually teamed up with colleagues in several countries, but in 1998 Congress pulled the plug on the consortium, contending that it was too expensive. President Bush, however, reversed that decision. The White House announced last January that the U.S. "will join ... an ambitious international research project to harness the promise of fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. America will join negotiations with Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and China...
...while. The $50 portable gadget plays 30-min. videodiscs ($7.99 each) with excerpts from popular shows like American Idol, SpongeBob SquarePants and Jimmy Neutron. It runs on a pair of AA batteries that should last for seven hours. And if the videos get too noisy, the kids can plug in a pair of earphones. It's a nice idea, but the tiny black-and-white screen is a disappointment...