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...series, slated for December release, the whole Enterprise gang, led by William Shatner, journeys back in time 300 years to Starfleet's first home base, San Francisco, to save planet earth from an alien life form that had its beginnings in the 20th century. (No, it's not Cheez Whiz.) Perhaps in honor of Star Trek's upcoming 20th anniversary, the new film purports to be the closest so far in form and feeling to the original TV shows. Nimoy directed, as he did the third movie, and he claims, straight-faced as always, ''It has the most down...
...agency embarked on a massive effort to design, buy and install a series of complex, computerized systems to replace the straining, watchful eyes and reflexes of the air-traffic-control workers. These were going to be cutting-edge, glittering new systems--the newest generation of whiz-bang electronics, avionics, software and hardware, many of them custom-designed to keep up to date with the needs and desires of American aviation...
Eventually the program may enable riders to calculate miles traveled as well as reductions made in their carbon footprints. But the gee-whiz factor will always take a backseat to convenience. For bikes to become a mainstay of the morning rush, cities need to spend time and money expanding bike fleets and making streets safer for two-wheelers. That means creating dedicated bike lanes and ticketing cars that double-park in them. (Swing open a door at the wrong time, and a cyclist could get seriously injured.) Washington has spent the past seven years installing more than 30 miles...
...while DeBergalis grew up in Indiana and attended high school in San Juan, P.R. As an undergraduate, Rahn lived in Quincy House and joint-concentrated in math and physics, while DeBergalis studied computer science at MIT. (During his time there, he became good friends with Kathy Paur, a math whiz in her own right who would eventually marry Rahn...
...trading at over $200 and has a market cap of more than $27 billion. That's about $10 billion above what Visa Inc. just raised with its IPO - and Visa is the market leader with 40% higher earnings than MasterCard. It doesn't take a math whiz to see why Wall Street is all charged up on the king of cards...