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...military that Pinochet commanded from his coup of 1973 until eight years after he'd relinquished power is naturally deeply unhappy about the judicial pursuit of its erstwhile chief. And they've made their unhappiness known by pressuring President Ricardo Lagos into convening the National Security Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth...
...fire. Arafat appears to have heeded their pleas by stepping up patrols to stop shooters, but the incident may be symptomatic of a creeping intifada fatigue among many West Bank Palestinians. Many ordinary Palestinians are beginning to complain that they're suffering tremendous casualties and economic deprivations in pursuit of goals that remain undefined...
HOME-ROASTED COFFEE INVENTOR: SWISSMAR In their reckless pursuit of the freshest cup of coffee, java jocks are worse than drug addicts. Alpenrost, the first home coffee roaster, could be the ultimate enabler on the coffee lover's road to destruction. Pour in green coffee beans (Swissmar supplies them), press a button and 25 minutes later you have fresh-roasted coffee beans. If that's too long to wait, check yourself into a clinic...
While its future ownership is in doubt, the buttoned-down brain trust at PARC has lost none of the anything-goes enthusiasm that made it famous in the first place. It's a place where experts from entirely different academic disciplines mind-meld furiously, then run off in pursuit of the most challenging technological problems they can come up with. And right now, at the dawn of the Internet age, PARC scientists are most motivated by the question of how we digest our increasingly bloated diet of data. After all, they say, your total potential reading matter increased...
...campus's bland "prison-like" facades and vast open spaces screamed potential to Tucker. He desired to raise Boston's profile in the world of contemporary art while renewing public appreciation for the challenges and beauties of modern sculpture. Admittedly an idealist, Tucker nevertheless realizes the difficulties of his pursuit: "When works of art are challenging and in a public space, it raises people's awareness and concerns. The arts have always been lightning rods for opinion...