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...breakthrough feature is the "monocoque," or single-shell construction, which allows the skier to transmit force directly to the edges more easily than with the multilayer sandwich construction of other skis. The S9000 costs $600 a pair, but may become a hot property among racers and aggressive recreational skiers. Salomon (1989 sales: $613 million) aims to become the leading maker of top-flight skis within the next five years. But the climb will be no cakewalk against the industry leaders, France's Rossignol and America's K2, which have carved out loyal followings...
...five die of diarrhea, measles, malnutrition and other preventable causes. An extra $2.5 billion a year could save the lives of 50 million children over the next decade. That is roughly equal, children's advocates note, to the amount that the world's military establishments, taken together, shell out every...
...none of this was conclusive -- not even the shotgun shell casing found in Lyle's jacket -- until a mysterious witness emerged. An informant told police that psychotherapist Jerome Oziel had tapes and notes of his sessions with the Menendez boys in which they confessed to the crime. The informant added that she overheard the confessions from the doctor's waiting room. Police seized the tapes and arrested Lyle; three days later, Erik turned himself...
...same testing at a lower cost. They point out that in Europe, where the blood testing is not mandatory, the drug costs only about $1,300 a year. Salzman calls the refusal of some state Medicaid programs to pay the full price of clozapine "outrageous," since they often shell out up to $50,000 a year for procedures like kidney dialysis. In addition, Salzman suggests that U.S. lawmakers could ease Sandoz's liability concerns by providing indemnity...
...Line -- and as the KGB was surely on the point of discovering -- Fiona had been a double agent all along, playing a delicate and deadly game for the cozy old establishmentarians who run Britain's spies. Deighton persuades the reader to take this shell-and-pea shuffling more or less seriously by giving real weight to Fiona's predicament. She is bright and tough, but the pressure of remembering her lines and her lies has worn away her resilience. She worries about going mad, about having already gone mad. Her sometime lover, probably also her KGB watcher, notices her distress...