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Because Tech boats are slower than many other boats in which Harvard competes, tactics become very important. Although the Crimson women rarely have the opportunity to practice in these boats, Philbrick felt that the shifty water gave the women an advantage, as they are used to sailing in these conditions...
Microsoft's decision to eliminate stock options and instead award stock grants to its 50,000 employees reflects the same phenomenon: fear of a brain drain. Microsoft is maturing into a slower-growth company and must retain its "institution builders," says Ed Lawler, a business professor at the University of Southern California. "The company needs to attract more people who aren't as risk oriented." A recently hired Microsoft techie says getting restricted stock (with cash value) will encourage him to stay: "People like me who suffered through the dot bomb don't care as much about options...
...better than regular, but water is even better. And pastries made with artificial sweeteners can still be high in calories if they're high in fat. If you get a Big Mac and fries with that Diet Coke, you're simply going to get fat at a slightly slower rate. Fake sugar is probably not a terrible thing--but it's not so great for you either...
...scientists, that's where the excitement lies, not in this week's approach. The two planets come close every 26 months or so, as the closer-in, faster-moving Earth laps the slower Mars on their journeys around the sun. But Mars' orbit isn't quite circular; it's elliptical, so it's sometimes closer to and sometimes farther from the sun. (Earth's orbit is also elliptical but much less so.) When the Earth catches up at a time when Mars is relatively near the sun, there's an especially close encounter. In 1988 the planets were just...
...chose to keep political authority in U.S. hands rather than betting prematurely on any Iraqi group. To the chagrin of most of Iraq's many political factions, Bremer has put talk of a transitional government in the deep freeze, and instead plans to draw Iraqis into a much slower process of consultation over a new constitution. That, of course, leaves the occupation authority without an Iraqi face, which further inflames nationalist passions - but managing an occupation mission such as Iraq invariably throws up mostly lesser-evil choices...