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...fastidious about his mealtime manners. He likes to work on the mash for a while, then refresh his taste buds with a sip of water or a few wisps of hay. From time to time he pauses to tidy the floor of his stall by picking up stray kernels. He is the neatest glutton at the track...
...with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive employment contract that constrains him from leaving the firm for at least a year. But Perot can freely fire those employees who stray from the code of the pack...
Meanwhile, the litany of savagery continues without respite: Munich, the Sinai Desert, Khartoum, Nicosia, Beirut. Who knows where terrorism, Arab or Israeli, will strike next? To the Israelis, attacks on fedayeen camps and stray assassinations of Palestinian envoys are legitimate acts of self-defense designed to convince Arab fanatics that their war of vengeance makes no sense. The Israelis' calculated campaign of attrition may or may not ultimately discourage the implacable zealots of Al-Fatah or Black September. On the other hand, there is ample proof that the most recent displays of belligerence have discouraged Arab moderates. Many feel...
...five children of a wealthy architect and newspaper publisher, he had grown up in comfort in the Basque city of Bilbao. The slums of Madrid shocked him: "I found terrible suffering−widows with children begging for bread, sick people begging for medicine, waifs running through the streets like stray dogs...
...violable constants such as the acceleration of gravity are not constant but continually changing. Then there are pulsars, the collapsed cadavers of giant stars that give off extraordinary pulses of radiation, and kindred black holes, which are totally invisible but act like cosmic vacuum cleaners in sweeping up any stray stel lar material in their vicinity. Where does this material go? England's Roger Penrose and Robert Hjellming of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have dared to suggest that it might surface elsewhere, perhaps in an entirely different universe...