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Timothy J. Kelleher was found guilty of assault and battery and was sentenced to one year of probation and 50 hours of community service, narrowly escaping the six-month prison sentence sought by the prosecutor...
...able to. "The real question here is will the Administration apply its views on terrorism in an evenhanded way?" Kurzban asks. "If Mr. Posada was a member of al-Qaeda, would the Bush Administration do everything in its power to make sure he is detained beyond the six-month period...
...design team willing to stick it out in a steamy, crowded Chinese city where the foreign population numbered in the dozens and not many locals spoke English. By 1994 he had worked with a few designers, and he persuaded his wife and her younger sister to give Xiamen a six-month try. "The deal," says Fiona, "was, if we didn't like it, we'd move home." Tia, who had been attending classes at Parsons School of Design in New York City, agreed to tag along. She left behind her friends and a boyfriend, "who said I was nuts...
...London. In a nimble rethinking of the atmospheric sublime, Eliasson mirrored the hall's 115-ft. ceiling, then hung from it a patently artificial but weirdly persuasive "sun" made from 144 yellow lightbulbs behind a giant semicircular screen. Then he pumped the room full of mist. During a six-month run that ended in March 2004, Eliasson's make-believe sky drew some 2 million visitors. A lot of them spent long stretches lying on their backs, gazing blissfully upward...
...machines, "and we both laughed." But Pearson wasn't laughing when he called Farrell a week later. Research suggested that the idea wasn't so wacky after all. Those two eureka moments could help drive Europe's vending machines into the digital era. Coca-Cola HBC recently finished a six-month trial of 30 networked Coke machines at Dublin Airport in Ireland that sold mobile-phone top-ups, ring tones, games and logos - all downloaded from a central database - as well as soft drinks. It's now fine-tuning the business model, ensuring revenues cover the technology's cost...