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...Loyalty, compatibility, competence - Cheney's got them all, along with three past heart attacks and a profile that's somehow more chief of staff than veep. Cheney changed his residency back to Wyoming from Texas to make himself officially available (that pesky 12th Amendment), but his selection would definitely signal a very old-school, very tight-knit, very Texan administration. But that may be the kind of show Bush wants...
...light bulb that flashed above Shuji Nakamura's head in 1993 to signal a brilliant new idea was, quite literally, blue. After four years of study, the senior researcher at tiny Nichia Chemical Industries, a company in southeastern Japan, had created a little azure beam that would revolutionize the global electronics industry. Nakamura's blue light-emitting diode was the missing link needed to produce cheap, energy-saving illumination in everything from traffic lights to big-screen TVs; it also promised greatly expanded storage capacity on digital video discs...
...Pacific time, the Pentagon plans to fire the rocket from California, then fire the interceptor from the Pacific. It hopes the resulting collision will persuade President Clinton to give the order to start building a $30 billion system to protect the U.S. from missile attack. Success could signal the most profound change in U.S. national security since Washington decided to contain Soviet expansionism in 1947. That is why so much is riding on this week's test for the military, its contractors and the space shield's many proponents in Washington...
...receiving guidance from far below as early-warning radar systems detect the incoming warhead. These systems hand off data to a so-called X-band radar system based on Kwajalein, which stabs the sky with a narrow beam of electronic pulses. The X-band's shorter wavelengths and advanced signal-processing capabilities give it the power to "draw" a clear image of the incoming warheads and surrounding decoys from up to 1,000 miles away. (Ultimately, the system's $500 million X-band radar will be based on storm-tossed Shemya Island, Alaska...
...what the meaning of the word 'fund-raiser' is") don't seem to contain any legal red flags, at least for lay readers unfamiliar with the minutiae of the case, which is pretty much everybody outside the Justice Department. And Gore's releasing them himself is an unmistakable signal that he's confident of his innocence, or at least his defense: a really bad memory and a very small bladder. It's also the best way to ensure that nobody reads them too closely...