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...body will lie in state at Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex. After services at Westminster Abbey ? the first state funeral since that of Winston Churchill in 1965 ? and a private service at the royal chapel in Windsor, she will be laid to rest beneath a simple slab of black marble beside her husband, King George...
...Remind grousing Brazil that they've been allotted a generous 52 percent of the 5.4-million-ton slab-steel quota. And if they want to be treated like exempted NAFTA members Mexico and Canada, well, the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations - a Western Hemisphere version of NAFTA - kick off in 2005, which just happens to be three years away. Remind the Russians that they've been allotted 25 percent of that same slab-steel quota, and that if they want to be treated even better, like special-exemption Turkey, they could always be more helpful...
...efficient are they? With its pioneering continuous-slab casting process, Steel Dynamics produces flat-rolled sheet coils for $50 to $100 less per ton than its integrated competitors. Last year output per employee was $1.1 million, vs. about $254,000 at Bethlehem. "A lot of high-tech companies don't have our revenues per employee," says Fred Warner, investor-relations manager at Steel Dynamics. And analysts say the minis' market share would probably rise even faster if imports were curtailed. "The minis will expand again with higher prices," says Robert Crandall, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Over time they...
Actually, no, forget that. Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, is nothing like a giant black slab. She's gracious, enthusiastic and cultivated. No slab in our experience has anything like her laugh, which is the musical kind you might expect from a woman born in Baton Rouge, La., one whose taste is stately enough to embrace the 19th century Japanese camera portrait but frisky enough to approve paparazzi shots from the Rome of La Dolce Vita. All the same, she's forceful when she needs to be and cunning when the occasion...
...When a British engineer uncovered the stone in 1911 in the southern port of Galle, the 12-cm-thick slab, which was being used as a drain cover, caused a wave of excitement in the archeological world. Here was solid proof of Zheng He's odysseys. Today, the shoulder-high stone lies all but forgotten in a corner of the National Museum in Colombo. In Galle, a replica of the tablet - the town's sole record of Zheng He's passing - sits in the National Maritime Museum alongside pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although...