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...mired in just seven. Ironically, plenty of VCs are Webvan customers (San Francisco and Silicon Valley being one of the most lucrative arenas for a firm that delivers groceries to the horribly busy). But they're also a sanguine lot, and won't hesitate to avoid a bad investment even if it means making trips to Safeway again...
...many Macedonian Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Yet the absence of any strong disincentive for the guerrillas to continue fighting may be the fatal flaw of NATO's strategy, which appears to be accelerating the slide to civil war, an outcome the alliance had desperately hoped to avoid - and which would inevitably drag NATO in to clean up the mess, but only after yet another embarrassing conflagration has exploded right under the noses of the U.S. and European troops sent to the Balkans to keep the peace...
...World economy does not produce livable wages, stable communities and good schools, what kind of nation are we building? And what kind of wealth is this? We're getting a lot of traffic, pollution, drugs and poverty. It's a heavy price to pay just to avoid mowing our own lawns and cleaning our own homes. JONETTE CHRISTIAN Holden, Maine...
...family members were neighborhood leaders, lieutenants in the group's structure. When the crackdown began, the boy returned from school to find police surrounding his home. Twenty days later, the authorities broke in to discover his granny and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept on a cot in the storeroom. The boy slept beside her. They refused to renounce Falun Gong. Last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, the mother entrusted her son to other practitioners, kissed...
...particularly risky procedure; most implantations are done under local anesthesia and take 1-1 1/2 hours, according to WebMD. Afterwards, Cheney should keep his cell phone at least six inches away from his heart to avoid interference, and stay away from MRIs and certain types of welding equipment. But the new ones aren't bothered by microwave ovens, and for the most part pacemakers are safe and reliable...