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...partly to protect the reputation of its trademark. Shady operators were doing a brisk business in cheap, phony Harley souvenirs. So now, after a hot day on his Harley-Davidson bike, an easy rider wearing genuine Harley boots and a Harley shirt can reach into his Harley wallet and pull out some money to pay for a Harley-Davidson wine cooler. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Wilmer Ames Jr./New York
...between the true believers and the naysayers are many who regard SDI as a strategy that has yanked the Soviets back to the bargaining table by exploiting their greatest fear: that Uncle Sam will pull a technological rabbit out of his top hat. Some see Star Wars as the ultimate bargaining chip, to be traded away for sizable reductions in offensive weapons. Others want to take the cautious path of continuing research to see if a space shield is feasible before deciding whether to build it or negotiate with...
...General Reference Answers.com www.answers.com When you want basic information about someone or something, try plugging your query into Answers.com's general search field, or browse the ever-expanding Directory of reference material. The information you pull up will include dictionary definitions and encyclopedia articles culled from resources licensed from a variety of publishers. The site draws heavily from Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers-anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon...
...more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records from his personal physician...
...Sharon is a tactician who knows how to survive politically but has no realistic long-term strategy for bringing peace to his people and the Middle East. The plan to pull Israeli settlements out of Gaza is all about tactics and is not a genuine peace initiative. The people of Israel would have been better off without Sharon as their leader. Aya Ben-Sedef Kochav Yair, Israel...