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...pilot's precaution would be enough to make most investors turn tail. At home in Santa Monica, Mulhern, 34, watched the Iraq war and its bloody aftermath unfold on television and reached a different conclusion. If he arrived early, preferably first, and offered high-tech capability to Iraqis starved of it, customers would probably pour in. "This is the perfect storm for business," he says. "This is an extremely educated country with a lot of money, and you're starting everything from scratch. It's like a land grab." That is, if you live long enough to grab. Being...
...bridges are unusual for having asymmetrical flourishes, canted curves that slant against the water or--as in his first American span, a $23.5 million glass-and-steel footbridge in Redding, Calif., that opens next month--a long, slender tail fin at one end that operates as a sundial. "Asymmetry allows you to explore," he says. "You can emphasize things having to do with the position of the city against the water or the curvature of the stream...
...formal proceedings at the conference, at least, he was right. The term "shared values" was bandied around so much it seemed that Davos had become one giant undergraduate ethics seminar. Cheney caught the mood perfectly. A man whom, a year ago, many in Davos thought had horns and a tail, came across as nicely self-deprecatory. In a notably conciliatory speech to the Europeans in his audience, Cheney said that the old Continent was an example to all of the benefits that peace, economic success and political stability can bring. America, he said, "wants the strongest possible Europe...
...large, C-shaped region that sits deep near the center of your brain. It is very primitive--part of what is called the reptilian brain because it evolved long before mammals proliferated, some 65 million years ago. Our brain scans showed that parts of the body and the tail of the caudate became particularly active as a lover gazed at the photo of a sweetheart...
...Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. "There's an unbelievable increase in activity," he says. "But there are just a few big deals handled by fewer banks. The dotcoms aren't coming back yet." - By William Boston Unseasonal Greetings For U.S. oil-services firm Halliburton, 2003 carried a sting in its tail. Amid recent allegations that it overcharged U.S. tax payers by $61 million for its services, Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root last week lost its 10-month-old deal to supply Iraq with fuel: the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support Center will re-open contract bids early this year...