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...Indians, Mahesh Patel was at home last Friday morning at 8:45 watching the televised Republic Day parade of India's armed forces. Suddenly, the TV set blacked out and his living room in Ahmedabad, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, began to shake like a storm-tossed raft. Toward the end of the 45-second quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey says hit 7.9 on the Richter scale, Patel heard a violent snapping sound. He ran out just as a neighboring four-story house collapsed in a roiling cloud of dust. As their home crumbled, a few residents...
...language from the campaign means his Justice Department will drop, or at least tone down, the government's case against the software giant. Tobacco companies are counting on Bush to give up the 1999 federal racketeering suit against them. And in his final month as President, Clinton provided a raft of additional targets, including measures announced just last week to protect more than 1 million acres of federal land, such as the Upper Missouri River Breaks in Montana and a portion of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Property-rights advocates and Western Republican Governors howl that these vast protected spaces--what...
...language from the campaign means his Justice Department will drop, or at least tone down, the government's case against the software giant. Tobacco companies are counting on Bush to give up the 1999 federal racketeering suit against them. And in his final month as president, Clinton provided a raft of additional targets, including measures announced just last week to protect more than 1 million acres of federal land, such as the Upper Missouri River Breaks in Montana and a portion of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Property-rights advocates and western Republican governors howl that these vast protected spaces - what...
Earlier cases in which Harvard sued to protect its name were different. For example, just over a year ago, Congress passed an anti-cyber-squatting measure that touched off a raft of lawsuits, including one against a man who registered domain names such as "harvard-lawschool.com" and attempted to auction then off for thousands of dollars each. The University sued to protect its name--which has been trademarked since 1827--in a justifiable use of the law to protect its own interests...
...deregulated, market-pricing system may be only few kinks away from serviceable - a raft of new power plants is going up across America, and California won't be far behind. And the Bush years will surely be friendly ones to the gas/oil/power business. A boost in supply, a few more of those refrigerator-sized fuel-cell doohickies in some Silicon Valley basements, and heck, in a few years the crunch is a memory...