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...many have lately been seeking to fill the spiritual vacuum left by the hollow, lifeless phrases of Marx. The sip of individual initiative permitted in recent years is nurturing a taste for more personal freedoms, not so much for U.S.-style democracy or the overthrow of the regime as for a vague longing to choose things for oneself, profit from one's own effort, speak one's own mind. "Before, it was either the party or this." Gliceria Cabrera, 57, is firm: "From now on we can say that...
...potent combination of government incentives and private investment, technologies that use synthetic materials, advanced electronics and biotechnology are sweeping through the energy industry. They could foster a new generation of mass-produced machines that efficiently and cleanly provide the energy that enables people to take a hot shower, sip a cold beer or surf the Internet. The transition to a 21st century energy system is gathering speed on at least four fronts...
...bounds onstage to the beat of the house rock band. He grimaces when jokes don't work, makes small talk with the nerdy bandleader, obsessively repeats words and names that strike his fancy. Sitting at his desk, a nighttime cityscape in the background, he stops periodically to take a sip from a glass of tap water. Each time, he offers the same exaggerated show of pleasure: "I say yes to German water...
...Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...
Last Thursday there were three of them, one apparently dressed as a woman. They stationed themselves along the Ben Yehuda promenade in the heart of west Jerusalem, where residents and tourists pack the pedestrian mall to shop and sip drinks at outdoor cafes. Within eyesight of one another, the three detonated their bombs packed with 4 lbs. of explosives, filled with nails and screws...