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Harvard pressed in the waning moments, and Johnson scored his second of the afternoon and tenth of the season to bring the Crimson to within one with eight seconds remaining...
...Baghdad and the masks come off in Hong Kong. Here's a look at a few of the players who are thriving or diving right now. WINNERS IMPERIAL TOBACCO: The leading British cigarette firm is a safe haven in uncertain times because of its huge cash flow - almost one-tenth of its total $13 billion sales. Its stock price has made a steady 12% gain since February, despite the market's wartime worries. Besides, if the war stays nasty, jittery folk might start smoking again. BEIERSDORF: Sales of its Tesa-brand duct tape in the U.S. soared tenfold after...
...university presses are designed to print academically important but economically unviable works of scholarship. According to an article by Sisler in Learned Publishing magazine, university presses produce nearly 15 percent of the titles published annually, but earn under two percent of total industry revenues, and account for just one tenth of a percent of all books sold in the country...
...Tenth-grader Paul was, as one classmate described him, "a nerd who didn't look like a nerd." Eighth-grader Bill was a nerd who, well, did. But when they met at Seattle's private Lakeside School in 1968, they found a common interest in how things worked, especially computers. They soon became close, hanging out in the school computer center playing--and writing--games. "Part of the appeal," Gates would recall in his book The Road Ahead, "was that here was an enormous, expensive, grown-up machine and we, the kids, could control it." Thanks to Microsoft, the software...
...tenth mortar round landed and Jones poured more .50 cal in to the berm on the right. Rather's Barbarian 4 fired its 120 mm - this one painted, "Baghdad's Nightmare." Again the strike was good. ("I finally busted my cherry," Sgt. Rather would joke later.) Gratified again, this time in the ditches in front of the bungalow -a few seconds later another mortar exploded plum on the road, 40 meters ahead of Barbarian 2. "The Iraqi's have zeroed their distance," said Mitchell, as all three tanks in Micthell's track made a sharp reverse. "Let's show...