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...guided the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years. In 1999, upset that the Eagles chose him over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year...
Those camera-equipped cell phones may be the latest must-have tech product, with more than 31 million sold in North America last year alone. But the ability of users to snap pictures on the sly almost anywhere they go--and even put the images on the Internet--has prompted a growing number of places to institute a ban on the devices...
...closed as teachers and civil servants went on strike, climaxing a three-day series of walkouts by public-sector workers protesting job cuts and pay freezes. Rail services were disrupted mid-week; on Thursday, tens of thousands of demonstrators brought Paris, Marseilles and other city centers to a standstill. Snap Judgement DENMARK Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called early parliamentary elections for Feb. 8, nine months ahead of the deadline. Opinion polls suggest that Rasmussen's center-right alliance, which has been a staunch ally of the U.S-led war in Iraq, will be returned to power. Glimmer of Hope MIDDLE...
...time before we get there." The company notes that Boeing's commercial airplane unit is still profitable. Airbus places heavy bets, too. Late last year the company announced it would launch a new plane - the A350, similar to the 7E7. Boeing's argument is that Airbus can make such snap choices because it never faces the kind of market risks that Boeing does. Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Virginia-based Teal Group, agrees: "Airbus has the freedom to develop new products whenever it wants, or to discount prices whenever it wants, because its shareholders won't abandon it. Boeing...
...Washington, Oregon and California, where a wayward slab of the earth's crust known as the Juan de Fuca plate is trying to slide under continental North America. What they didn't appreciate until quite recently was that the juncture where the two plates are locked together can snap violently like a giant spring, unleashing a tsunami as large and terrifying as the one that pummeled South Asia...