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...flight was leaving. Then there is the big, clunky hearing aid that he takes out and fusses with right in the middle of a conversation, as if it were a pipe, and the canvas tote he uses as a briefcase, and his habit of loudly cracking his knuckles. On top of that there are the Old Testament beard and the preacher's voice that make him seem like Moses come down again from Mount Sinai to deliver commandments 11 through 20. Smoking? It's an addiction that will kill you. Sex? Only in marriage. AIDS? The best preventive device...
Some oil-industry experts have alleged that Exxon's sluggish initial response to the Alaskan accident was partly the result of another corporate lapse: the reduction of its spill-management staff during cost cutting in the mid-1980s. The company lost nine of its top environmental and spill-control officers, including scientist G.P. Canevari, the inventor of Corexit 9527, a commonly used oil-slick dispersant...
Under the original agreement reached last November, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would design the fighter (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) in cooperation with St. Louis-based General Dynamics. The deal guaranteed U.S. contractors 40% of the $1.2 billion development budget and allowed access to the secrets of advanced Japanese radar gear and composite materials. But Bush wants further assurances that American firms will receive 40% of the $5 billion to $10 billion in production contracts for as many as 170 fighters, which are to be deployed in the late 1990s...
...Carlos Salinas de Gortari since he took office late last year. In January, after a sensational shoot-out in Ciudad Madero, police arrested Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina," the powerful and widely feared leader of Mexico's oil workers' union. A month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they are renowned for using patronage and corruption to put themselves beyond the reach of the law. By tackling such formidable figures head...
...question: How much computing power can be packed onto a desktop? Last week the company gave a startling new answer by delivering its lowest-cost and most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation...