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...have a major interest in an NMD system, especially since its ultimate cost is estimated at more than $30 billion. The four largest weapons contractors--Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and TRW--together received more than $2.2 billion in missile-defense research-and-development money over a recent 21-month span, according to a report issued by the World Policy Institute. In 1997 and '98, the latest years for which figures are available, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and TRW spent $35 million on lobbying. Boeing is even readying a television campaign touting the need for missile defense...
...strolled over to celebrate the discovery of the buried treasure. Later in the day, there was a buzz at the Ivy Bake Shoppe, and upstairs, in Martha Wolf's sprawling Early American loft, the view of the Mississippi, which widens to nearly a mile beneath the old swing-span bridge, was stunning...
...idea of letting strangers rifle through our genetic identities. What would happen if, for example, during an interview in the not-so-distant future, a prospective employer shook your hand, walked into a lab and used the traces of you skin to evaluate your life span and your overall cost to the company's health insurance coffers? And let's say you were predisposed to developing breast cancer - how could you be sure your employers weren't denying you a job because you came up a loser on their genetic cost-benefit scale...
...delivers a piece of vintage '90s pop-metal, as straightforward as a stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike. The band's trove of clever hooks and jolly bombast once made it a cool alternative for kids suffering from heavy-metal fatigue. But pop taste, like a teen's attention span, never lasts. Crush tries to update itself with Older, a tune about honoring your roots, but what it really, really wants is to re-live the days when jeans were tight and hair was big. Fine, but haven't we been down this road before...
...Remarkably, Gunther allowed only six goals over the entire season and only three goals over the span of Harvard's 10-game winning streak to end the regular season. Gunther also posted a remarkable 7.85 shutouts on the year...