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...conservative free-trade advocate who has strong views about South Korea's need to reform its economy - as a consensus-seeker. After all, when he served as mayor of Seoul earlier this decade, he ordered that one of the city's major highways be demolished so a stream could be restored. As CEO of Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the country's largest construction company, Lee wielded a lot of power - as was customary. Korea a couple of decades ago was ruled by a handful of men: the government by a dictator and his aides, and the economy by equally dictatorial tycoons...
...afraid. Much of a professor’s global effectiveness depends on the personal esteem and cooperation of deans, administrators, and fellow professors. Even my annual salary increases are determined by officials who appear to feel threatened by my bringing up this issue. Furthermore, I have received a stream of insulting and threatening emails calling me, among other things, an “anti-Semite,” a “pussy,” and a “mentally inferior black jew-hater.” Some called for my dismissal. It is difficult to stand...
...second. With Mars and Earth currently 171 million miles (275 million km) apart, however, signals from the ship need a full 15 min. 20 sec. to get here, meaning NASA did not confirm the 7-min. plunge until 8 min. after it ended. If the ship had crashed, the stream of incoming data would have been nothing more than an electromagnetic message from the grave...
...story begins in 2005, when Deutsche Telekom, the former German phone monopoly, was rapidly losing ground to new competitors. Management was under fire and sensitive information was showing up in a steady stream of embarrassing newspaper headlines. Telekom's management was determined to find out who was talking to the press and stop the leaks...
...McCain regularly takes four medications: aspirin to prevent blood clots; Hydrochlorothiazide, for kidney stone prevention; Amiloride, to preserve potassium in the blood stream; and Simvastatin to lower his cholesterol. He also sometimes takes Ambien CR to help him sleep and Zyrtec, an antihistamine for nasal allergies...