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...applicants, and Rice and Stanford admit home schoolers at rates equal to or higher than those for public schoolers. These schools compete for students like L.J. Decker, 17, from Katy, Texas, who scored 1560 on the SAT and was part of a team of home schoolers who won the Toshiba ExploraVision contest for their idea of a futuristic scuba device that would use artificial hemoglobin to convert the oxygen in water into...
...will continue to offer products made by such companies as Apple, Compaq, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sony and Toshiba...
...merchandise. In one case, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. recalled four-wheel-drive Pajeros in Europe and North America because of a faulty rear brake. Customers there got free repairs. Chinese owners did not. Only after a Chinese government-affiliated consumers' group filed suit did Mitsubishi agree to pay compensation. Similarly, Toshiba offered free repairs and compensation for faulty laptop computers sold in the U.S. while Chinese buyers were left in the lurch. "Such behavior by the Japanese has harmed the reputation of Japanese business and lowered their products' prestige," says Yang Jiankun, secretary-general of the Chinese Consumers Association. A recent...
...Scottish judges didn't get into any of that. In its closely reasoned ruling, the court laid out why it believed evidence that the bomb, concealed in a Toshiba radio-cassette player, was placed in a brown Samsonite suitcase amid clothes purchased in Malta. Exactly how that suitcase was spirited aboard an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt is unknown, but the court was convinced that it had been, that it was transferred to a Pan Am flight in Frankfurt and then in London again to the New York-bound plane. The court put ample credence in Maltese shopowner Tony Gauci...
...strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and found a veritable bomb factory, complete with Toshiba radio-cassette players, explosives, detonators, timers and barometric pressure devices...