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...split $100,000." We learned that and we applied it and I think the guys in the band are grateful to us for thinking that way because now they can have their own individual budgets and when it's time to come back together they can share a huge pot...
...mere blips in centuries of history through which the principal adversary of the Vietnamese has always been China. Indeed, six years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Hanoi and Beijing fought a brief border war after Beijing sought to "punish" Vietnam for ejecting the Beijing-aligned regime of Pol Pot from power in neighboring Cambodia. (The Chinese, in that encounter, suffered what might politely be termed a thrashing.) And in recent years both countries have laid claim to the Spratly Islands, a disputed, possibly oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea. Vietnamese wariness of the power of their much...
Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...
While they hobnobbed, the journalists set about losing their official minders to get an unfettered glimpse of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is mired in food, energy and medical shortages. Outside a subway entrance a young man squatted beside a steaming pot, gingerly pouring boiling water over the limp corpse of an unskinned dog. In a downtown hospital, all the lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine...
...takeoff of an immense technological revolution. The idea that Clinton-Gore created the fruits and abundance thereof is magic thinking of a childish kind. It seems especially silly considering the billions and billions in All-Daddy, big-state promises that Gore has made - the chicken in every pot, the government in every wallet. Why, I heard the other day that Gore intends to MAKE SOCIAL SECURITY A FEDERAL PROGRAM...