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...attack well. "Oct. 27," he says. "It's not like the birth of your child, but it's memorable." And it came out of the blue. As founder and president of Omaha's Phillips Manufacturing Co., Sokolof drove himself relentlessly but seemed to be in good shape. "I was thin," he recalls. "I'm 5 ft. 10 in., and I weighed only 145 lbs. I did the Royal Canadian Air Force exercises regularly; I worked out and ran a mile once or twice a week...
...wide swath through U.S. industry, from executives to waitresses. And in most cases, no laws are broken. The problem is especially acute in service industries, where employees meet the public. According to Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont, "If two people, one fat and one thin, walk into a company with the same qualifications, the heavier one will get a more negative reception...
Yeltsin is impulsive and can be downright cavalier in personal relations. The carpet outside his presidential office in the Byely Dom (literally, White House), the Russian Supreme Soviet building on the Moscow River, must have been worn thin by the pacing of visitors who never got to see him at the appointed hour. Yet Yeltsin genuinely loves people and thrives on contact with them. Says he: "If I don't meet with people for a time, I start getting nervous...
...desert. Although many think of it as a lifeless place, the desert is actually a teeming, though fragile, ecosystem. Home to a variety of spiders, snakes and scorpions as well as larger creatures like camels, sheep and gazelles, it is literally held together by microorganisms, which form a thin surface crust. This crust catches the seeds of sparse shrubs and prevents surface soil from blowing away. Once it is disturbed -- by the maneuvers of a million soldiers, say -- recovery can take decades. The Libyan desert still shows tank tracks laid down in World...
...take disputed border oil fields or Bubiyan Island. A week before the invasion, at the very time Glaspie was meeting with Saddam, senior officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department were advised in intelligence briefings that Saddam was not bluffing. His patience with Kuwait was growing thin. Intelligence summaries cited Iraqi air exercises indicating preparation for a massive ground assault...