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...optical scanner that produced high-resolution, forensic-quality print images. It could fit in a backpack, and its calibration was not thrown off by jarring from a squad car or humvee. In 1997 the three partners brought in Ted Johnson, a retired Paine Webber executive, to be CEO and chief fund raiser. "They really took the industry by storm," says Brian Gesuale, vice president for technology research at Piper Jaffray, an investment-banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minn...
...odds are, in the fall they will plunge further as refiners ease away from the expensive cocktails they are forced to use to prevent gas from evaporating in the summer, consumption drops and speculators begin to anticipate a flat U.S. economy over the next few quarters, said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group. "Gas prices are headed lower in the coming weeks because the oil futures market finally is reflecting supply-demand shifts," Valliere said. "There is no policy initiative that could have done this, nothing from Washington. Market forces finally are dominating the speculators...
...Gensler, the firm's chairman, missed his flight home and ended up on a JetBlue flight to California with the airline's founder, David Neeleman. (Neeleman is known for hopping random JetBlue flights and handing out peanuts to passengers). "Nothing is more nerve-wracking," says Gensler's Bill Hooper, chief architect of the Terminal 5 project, "than having your boss hand you [David Neeleman's] card and saying, 'Make something happen...
...Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games was quoted as saying in a press release issued 20 minutes before the IOC statement. "The reporting by Chinese and international journalists through the internet is unhindered." At a rare press conference Friday, meanwhile, China's President and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao similarly told a small group of foreign reporters that "the Chinese government and the Chinese people have been working in real earnest to honor the commitments made to the international community...
...Mullah Omar, were in Quetta; they knew when [Jalaluddin] Haqqani was in Pakistan. Earlier it didn't suit their interest to admit this, but now that the fellows trained to fight in Kashmir are fighting in Afghanistan and killing American soldiers, they're feeling the heat." Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing, agrees: "We've been shouting this from the rooftops for years. Now, given the situation in Afghanistan, there is growing frustration within the U.S. about Pakistan's two-timing. But there's no telling whether this...