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...that the first choice to make is which gender edition you would like to read. Knopf has published two versions: male and female. The difference between the editions is not great--only 17 lines (and I promise not to reveal which 17)--but, as the cover and title page warn, this one paragraph is crucially different...
William Lawless, a former engineer at Savannah River, contends that plant managers paid little attention to workers who spotted what they considered unsafe practices. He says he was overruled when he tried to warn officials in 1982 about storing highly radioactive liquid waste in holding tanks whose floors had corrosive pits. "It's just like the shuttle disaster," he says. "Engineers weren't allowed to stop something they should have. Management controls them...
...does not, experts like Robert Chandross, chief economist at Lloyds Bank in Manhattan, warn that prices could drop below $10 per bbl. and remain at that level for the next six months. That would mean a repeat by next spring of the oil-market collapse of early 1986, when OPEC overproduction sent prices crashing to less than $10 per bbl. While cheap energy helps most Western economies by lowering inflation, petroleum at prices below $10 or $12 per bbl. is a painful prospect for such indebted oil producers as Algeria and Mexico and the weakened U.S. energy belt...
THEY BARELY KNEW WHAT HIT THEM. Al Frank, publisher of the Santa Monica-based newsletter The Prudent Speculator ($200 a year), admits that he was "clobbered" by the crash and its aftermath. He regrets failing to warn his readers, saying, "We had a lot of new clients who had signed up at the top of the market. Their stocks did not do well. It was very sad for me." Frank, 58, lost $750,000 of his own money, and his subscriber list has dwindled from 5,700 a year...
...learned of Robert Newman, the trusty church sexton who placed lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church to warn Paul Revere and others of the impending British invasion. We saw many Harvard presidents--and names of Harvard Houses--imbedded in the bronze plaques and on the gravestones that dot the Freedom Trail. And we saw The Gap, Ann Taylor, Filene's, Steve's Ice Cream, and the hosts of other boutiques and bargain basements which have sprung up in the midst of history in Boston...