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...repertoire of legends about their ancestors. Eventually they forged primitive weapons and set off over the mountain, mumbling phrases that could be loosely translated as having something to do with "vital national interests" and "manifest destiny." When they reached the next valley, they massacred and enslaved some weaker band of people they found clustered around some smaller fire and thus became the world's first imperialists...
...Harvard Bookstore's huge remainders section offers fiction and nonfiction for under $5. Downstairs, used books--also inexpensive--line the shelves. Among Harvard Bookstore's weaker spots are science fiction and children's selections...
...That's not true. How can I drive him out of business? He's already bankrupt! If anyone is trying to drive TWA out of business, it is Carl Icahn. Look, we will take a bigger hit on our revenues from the new fares than the weaker carriers will. American, United and Delta carry more full-fare passengers than TWA does, and it is the full fares that...
...Continental, which currently fly under the protective wing of the bankruptcy courts and thus pay no interest on part of their debt. Life will get rougher for them once they emerge from Chapter 11 protection and are forced to survive on their own resources -- something many analysts fear these weaker carriers may be unable to do for long. Once rid of such pesky competitors and their cutthroat tactics, the major airlines could regain full control of airfares -- and might then be free to raise them. "This is the nightmare that the marginal carriers didn't want to see happen," says...
...amount of the isotope in the midden urine with contemporary values, and concluded that cosmic-ray bombardment was 41% more intense 21,000 years ago than it is now. This suggests that the earth's magnetic field, which acts as a partial barrier to cosmic rays, was then considerably weaker. One implication: terrestrial life had been -- and could someday again be -- exposed to higher doses of dangerous radiation from space...