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...maybe I was having a little too much fun playing with the Rough Rider III, a "ruggedized" laptop designed to take a licking and let you keep on pointing and clicking. These machines are made to boot-camp standards to resist impact, temperature extremes, rain and dust. Many have bright screens, in case you need to read e-mail under a blinding desert...
...year we've been hearing about how aggressively almighty Alan Greenspan is cutting interest rates. Just hold on, the logic goes. Soon big-ticket items that folks often finance, from refrigerators to cars, will be so affordable that we won't be able to resist digging deeper into debt to spend. That will lift the economy, end a blistering surge in layoffs, pick up corporate profits, ignite the stock market and restore trillions of dollars of lost wealth...
...goal of eradicating HIV with drug therapy is surprisingly controversial. Most physicians have abandoned it; they have found HIV too adept at either hiding from the drugs or mutating to resist them...
...that display of intellectual honesty, Spergel suspects, that earned him an invitation to work on the microwave satellite. And once having tasted the pleasures of actual rocket science, he could hardly resist an invitation to help design a second spacecraft. The goal of this new mission is to find Earthlike planets orbiting other stars, and it requires solving optical problems that astronomers have never before confronted...
...only three have exceeded the limits of the budget resolution, and discretionary spending growth is set to top out at 6 percent. Not bad work with a Congress coming off the 8-percent pork-fest that was Clinton?s last budget - and with a boss who couldn?t resist making additional spending requests of his own. If the original budget surplus estimate had only held up, there would have been plenty...