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...they circled around each other last week on the stage's red plush carpeting, the body language of both candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Whom do you want to tame Washington for the next four years--the lover or the fighter...
When Jack St. Clair Kilby, a 34-year-old electrical engineer from Grand Bend, Kans., began working at a fledgling Dallas company called Texas Instruments in May 1958, he didn't yet qualify for the annual two-week summer vacation. So, come July, he had the lab pretty much to himself to try out something that had long been bugging him. Why, he wondered, couldn't all those tiny components--transistors, resistors, capacitors--in TI's electronic gadgetry be created out of a single block of material instead of separately wired parts? By September, he was ready to show...
...they circled around each other last week on the stage's red plush carpeting, the body language of both candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Who do you want to tame Washington for the next four years? The lover or the fighter...
After reviewing a total of 22 ads that were aired over a two-week period in battleground states such as Michigan, the consultants, who are often diametrically opposed on any political question, agreed that the advertisements were by all standards lacking in emotional appeal to voters...
...every successful Yukta or Lara who goes on to tear-drenched smiles as she receives her bouquet and tiara, thousands of other hopefuls end up humiliated and exploited. More and more young men and women are signing up with costly, dubious Indian modeling institutes, where a two-week session and a photo portfolio can run up to $1,000. The desire to break through to the beauty elite can force women into unsavory situations. Anorexia and steroid abuse are increasing. There are many stories of fixed contests, nepotism and the casting couch. "Most of our people are out-of-towners...