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Three thousand copies of the first issue were printed at a cost of $2,000, said Christopher H. Luo '98, one of the magazine's business managers and Mike Luo's twin brother...
This past summer, hype in the computer industry grew like a German shepherd. The twin peaks of this hype were two companies: Microsoft and Netscape...
...from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
...Hill is the last best public place in America for smokers, a refuge where lighting up is countenanced as both a venerable tradition and an up-to-the-minute political statement about the evils of overregulation. The marble halls are decorated with sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke wafts...
...Douglas Coleman, a researcher at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, began studying a strain of obese laboratory mice. In a series of ingenious experiments, Coleman surgically joined the blood vessels of an obese mouse to those of a normal-size mouse, creating a sort of artificial Siamese twin. What happened then was astonishing: the fat animal immediately began to lose weight. This suggested that the blood of nonobese mice carried a potent biochemical messenger, one that played a vital role in regulating appetite and metabolism. But the mysterious agent was present in such minuscule quantities that...