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...company and the angry shareholders agree on one thing: Reader's Digest has a tremendous amount of hidden value. They have locked horns over how to unlock that value for shareholders. "This is a $3 billion global business," says Craig Monaghan, Reader's Digest treasurer. "When it's running properly, it's a cash machine. It hums. We need to fix that...
...Takes On Encryption One of the architects of the Contract With America leads the charge against giving the government the keys to unlock your e-mail. Netly News: Software Money
...sounds like something from the Twilight Zone or The X-Files. Working to unlock the secrets of life and death, the heroes in this tale develop a powerful enzyme with the potential to rejuvenate the human body's aging tissues. But this is no sci-fi fantasy. It is an experiment sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Geron biotech company of Menlo Park, Calif., and a report on the research appeared in last week's issue of the prestigious journal Science. Not surprisingly, when word of the study first hit Wall Street, Geron's share price jumped...
...Kabbalah ("received" teachings) crystallized with the Zohar, the 13th century masterpiece set down in ancient Aramaic by the Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded in its story lines were the keys to unlock the Hebrew Bible--and hence all existence. Whereas standard rabbinic Judaism sometimes seems to look backward to God's most intimate interactions with his chosen people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate at all times: an ongoing surge of light or energy communicated...
Next best would be an ironclad guarantee that Beijing will stop selling nuclear-weapons technology to Iran and Pakistan. That would unlock the sale of peaceful nuclear technology, guidance systems and high-speed computers that China covets for economic development. But Beijing has a history of ignoring the spirit, if not the letter, of its commitments, and Clinton has demanded unequivocal, airtight assurances before he does a deal. Officials seem hopeful, though, that this could be the summit's chief tangible accomplishment...