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...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...
...Harvard Square was waking up to a grey sky on a sleepy Sunday morning, the Tasty slowly wound down...
...weeks before the 1996 election, Democrat Bill Yellowtail was in a neck-and-neck race for Montana's only House seat when a TV ad swooped out of the Big Sky. "Who is Bill Yellowtail?" it opened. "He preaches family values, but he took a swing at his wife." Yellowtail lost. A year later he's still trying to figure out who really took a swing at him. The ad's sponsor was a nonprofit group with a do-gooder name, Citizens for Reform. But the deeper mystery was how the organization knew to air a domestic incident more than...
Clearly, American companies and global powerhouses elsewhere won't be doing as much business in Asia in coming quarters. And that is precisely why Asia's problems are a world event. It means big companies won't make as much money as their sky-high stock prices demand. And that gets to the heart of the problem. It's not so much that companies can't thrive without exports to Asia; it's that ebullient investors have put such absurdly high prices on stocks that even a minor disappointment in earnings will let out a lot of air. Consider Citicorp...
Foale, however, had a handy way to figure it out. If he held up his thumb at arm's length, he could blot out a patch of sky equal to about 1 1/2[degrees] of arc--a point of reference he could use, along with his watch, to determine how fast a spacecraft was moving. Foale swam over to the window, spent a few minutes watching stars come and go behind his thumb, and swam back to Tsibliyev and Lazutkin. "Tell them we're moving one degree per second," he said...