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Have I benefited from the new economy? The answer is definitively yes. Will I ever pay $385 for a zinc-and-steel ironing board? The answer is definitively "not in this lifetime." MICHAEL OAKLEAF Madison...
Human activity is modifying precipitation in other dramatic ways. Satellite images show that industrial aerosols--sulfuric acid and the like--emitted by steel mills, oil refineries and power plants are suppressing rainfall downwind of major industrial centers. In Australia, Canada and Turkey, according to one study, these pollution patterns perfectly coincide with corridors within which precipitation is virtually nil. Reason: the aerosols interfere with the mechanism by which the water vapor in clouds condenses and grows into raindrops big enough to reach the ground...
Putin was lucky, but he also made his luck. Look at his eyes. Blue as steel. Cold as the Siberian ice. They bore into you, but you cannot penetrate them. Sometimes they're a mirror, reflecting what you want to see. Sometimes they're a mask disguising real intentions. Those eyes are Putin's strongest feature--not counting his unflinching will. He has proved a consummate opportunist, riding into office on loyalty to his bosses and then war fervor. President Putin will succeed where predecessors failed, says Chief of Staff and confidant Dmitri Kozak, "because the will is there. Discipline...
...breasted European women in thong bikinis are invisible to Tom Winkler. He's lying on a chaise longue by the overflowing pool at the Mondrian hotel, picking at the papaya from his $12.50 fruit plate. Remembering to return a call to his actress girlfriend, he pulls out his stainless-steel cell phone. What Winkler needs is a personal assistant...
...interesting to know how many people really want the human genome to be mapped. One can't be for the project and against cloning, genetic engineering for humans and all the things that are tightly linked to genetic research. Technology has always led to the best and the worst: steel gave us plows but also weapons; computers gave us the Internet but also guided nuclear missiles. There is no reason to think that in a couple of centuries man has evolved so much that we would be able to change our basic instincts. I vote against the Human Genome Project...