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...northern Maryland presidential retreat, with Israeli and Palestinian officials scrunched in them haggling with one another and dodging chipmunks darting across their paths. There were negotiations across tables, but just as much work got done over pinball machines at Hickory Lodge. With talks held practically round the clock, diplomats began to mark time by hours instead of days. And with clouds dumping rain almost every day, the Middle East guests--accustomed to dryer climates--complained that they were stuck in an expensive but soggy refugee camp...
...rally ended promptly at 4 o' clock so the city could avoid paying police overtime. Sanitation crews came in, sweeping up the littered "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal" signs and pamphlets marked "Living Wage" that detailed the plight of poorly-paid workers...
...breathing still at 9 o' clock, when the demonstration disbanded...
...technically he works for Genmar, Kirila figures that at some point his company, now called VEC Technology Inc., will go public. For the present he has a mandate to spread the gospel of digital manufacturing and fund start-up companies that aim, as he puts it, "to raise the clock speed of manufacturing culture." Jacobs is planning to do what Kirila originally intended: to lease the patented VEC system in the same way that Pitney Bowes used to lease stamp machines. "We're proving we can do it better, kinder, cleaner," says Jacobs, who has lost none of his salesmanship...
...miles to go: After days of intense round-the-clock talks at Camp David and a 15-hour flight to Japan (with a 13-hour time change) Clinton and his aides were bushed. Yet while the President often looked puffy-eyed, he never nodded off in public. But veteran Clinton-watchers noted that when the President, a compulsive ad-libber, gave his major speech at Okinawa's Peace Park, he stuck strictly to his prepared text, a sure sign of exhaustion...