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DIED. THOMAS KELLY, 67, Army lieutenant general who helped plan Desert Storm and shape news coverage of the Gulf War through his daily press briefings at the Pentagon; in Clifton...
...fiercely for months. Her daily routine includes 2 1/2 hours of speed, strength and agility drills with a personal trainer plus two to three hours of basketball against former men's college players and other local hotshots. "I don't worry for a second about her not being in shape," says U.S. women's coach Nell Fortner...
This time around, though, the ad was sponsored by a secretive tax-exempt group called Shape the Debate, which has ties to former G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson. Shape the Debate and its kin, including three groups tied to House G.O.P. whip Tom DeLay, don't have to disclose their donors or their spending so long as they don't say "vote for" or "vote against" a candidate. Also, they're not supposed to coordinate their work with that of a candidate...
...this world, code--as in computer code--is more important than law, which is fixed in texts. Code displayed on a screen is endlessly tweakable by users, while law is not. Yet code can shape behavior as much as, if not more than...
FUTURISTIC MATERIALS A diamond's extraordinary clarity and strength make it an ideal building material, but also terribly hard to work with. Nanobots, however, could make diamonds in any shape at all--a sheet a few millimeters thick, say, to make a scratchproof window. And because the basic feedstock is ordinary carbon, these diamonds are as cheap as glass...