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...eclipse traffic. We waved to a happy woman in a silver BMW convertible who was speeding along the highway with no other cars in sight. There was a jubilant mood among the other passengers in our car. They downed wine and beer and talked excitedly of their plans to soak up some rays before the eclipse...
While the Cox report harps on spying, what China stole is dwarfed by what it got legally. It's no secret that once Washington threw open the doors 20 years ago, a lot of Chinese exploited this country's freedom to soak up material from unclassified publications, study at the best universities, download technical reports from the Net. Beijing skillfully stitched the tidbits together into the rudiments of a new nuclear arsenal. The high-tech revolution here has moved cutting-edge military information into the civilian mainstream, making a lot of dangerous know-how available to potential enemies. That...
Five years after U.S. regulators approved the first genetically altered food crop, the "FlavrSavr" tomato, there are all manner of brave new foods on the way: beans and grains with more protein, caffeine-less coffee beans, strawberries packed with more natural sugars, and potatoes that soak up less fat during frying. At last count, says plant ecologist Allison Snow of Ohio State University, field trials have been conducted for some 50 gene-spliced food plants, including squash, melons, carrots, onions, peppers, apples and papayas...
...bidding war was the fact that the economics of the deal could work only for AT&T, because of the synergies Armstrong's strategy made possible. No other company was in a position to provide each of MediaOne's subscribers with as wide an array of services and soak up all those revenue streams. (Think about it: Would you rather buy phone service from your local cable company or AT&T?) No other company, in other words, could justify the $4,700 per subscriber that AT&T was willing to pay. "Bottom line: we can bring more value...
...much and far more than they can afford. I cannot believe how excruciatingly disingenuous Harvard is when it says that its students' "demonstrated needs" are met and that they need give no further money to financial aid--the administration forgets to mention that at the same time, it will soak up the extra money itself...