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...China were arrested after 21 teenage students were crushed to death and more than 50 injured when a staircase collapsed as they were leaving school after dark. An investigation in Fengzhen, Inner Mongolia, revealed the staircase was unlit, the banisters in the newly built school were made from thin steel ties instead of welded pipes and the staircase was too narrow for use by the school's large number of pupils. U.S. Gore Speaks Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned that a hasty attack on Iraq would "severely damage" the war on terrorism and "weaken" American leadership...
...Though Rove insists he doesn't play a foreign policy role, he fought an internal battle last spring with Bush's economic and foreign policy advisers over steel tariffs. Rove was for imposing the duties-favored by steel companies and unions in Mid-western swing states-and he won. It was Rove who in July warned Republican lawmakers who wanted to lift the trade embargo on Cuba that the White House would never go along...
...access memory" (NRAM), which means its chips won't forget how to run all its programs when the power is switched off. The technology uses arrays of 2-nm strands of carbon atoms, called carbon nanotubes, that convey electrons faster than copper and are 100 times as strong as steel at a fraction of the weight. Pairs of tubes store data by locking together when a current runs through them and stay together even when the computer power is switched off and back on. The tubes remain linked until separated by a countercurrent, so their memory is retained. And these...
...them still, but it sure doesn't come easy. That's what's different. That old winning smugness--their magisterial self-assurance--is gone. There's a lot of sweat in these songs. The band must know it too, because finally, on the last song [of the album Steel Wheels], they face it. Slipping Away is a song about--indeed almost consumed by--a sense of impermanence, of loss, of lives eliding into compromise. It's about ending. --TIME, Sept...
Incompatible with laws in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate...