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After an apparent failed attempt to lobby the federal government for support, the Harvard Management Company (HMC) has written down to zero its multi-million dollar investment in a New York-based high technology firm that went out of business this week...
...cars are regaining fans, including a few in powerful places. In an unprecedented collaboration, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler are working to develop a new electric battery that would serve the U.S. industry -- driven at least in part by rules in California that will require carmakers to sell affordable "zero emission" (translation: electric) vehicles by the end of the decade...
...They raised a whopping $3.5 million for Clinton. In Massachusetts, the campaign staff of Republican Governor William Weld credited gays, who mobilized against his Democratic opponent John Silber, with helping him get elected in 1990. This power has even greater effect on the congressional level. "No member of Congress -- zero -- votes based on some abstract poll number," says Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who is gay. "You base your vote on the reaction you get in your own district or state...
...growing number of other earthlings. Not only is Klingon a real language, sort of, it is the fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
...drove in over a snow-covered mountain track and encountered the reality of Srebrenica: refugees trudging south from captured towns had swollen the population from 9,000 to as many as 80,000. Everywhere there were ragged, hungry crowds, sleeping in the snow, huddling around sputtering bonfires in sub-zero temperatures...