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Fish tanks can be mesmerizing, but who wants to scrape algae or scoop out floaters? NEC's Fish Club ($17,000) replaces all that mess with lifelike images of tropical swimmers displayed on a 32-in. screen behind a real, bubbling tank. Laser discs provide a choice of fish...
...Chinese leaders tested that American commitment in 1996 when they lobbed a barrage of missiles perilously close to major ports in Taiwan. Clinton replied by dispatching two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups to the waters around Taiwan. Everyone learned a lesson from the scrape. Taipei and Washington found out that Beijing will respond militarily to what it thinks are President Lee Teng-hui's tendencies toward independence. China discovered that the U.S. would not let Taiwan be shoved around if it had done nothing wrong. Since then, Washington has indicated that it is not ready to help defend Taiwan...
...people leave wads of gum on the floor, you have to scrape it off," Rosenman says. "I did a room once that had 50 pieces...
...expansion is happening, what does it do? The first issue it raises is credibility. Advocates of NATO expansion agree that the Central and East European states face no military threat; so to them, the whole thing looks risk-free. But if in a few years Poland gets into a scrape with Ukraine, say, or Hungary with Romania, would the U.S. be willing to send American forces or nuclear weapons to defend the new allies? Such spats will never happen, say the proponents...
...Some podunk college in Texas with anendowment, which I can assure you is smaller thanthat of Harvard, managed to scrape together moremoney than we could," Stewart said...