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Mighty America Online just signed up to help pass out the punch. Last week Wal-Mart and AOL confirmed plans to launch a co-branded, low-cost Internet service by next spring. In-store kiosks will help introduce shopping at wal-mart.com--and probably the new ISP--to the yet-untapped market strolling Wal-Mart's aisles...
...them points for effort. Webvan boasts that its 330,000-sq.-ft. warehouse is so meticulously organized that no packer has to walk more than 19 1/2 ft. in search of a product. Now, post-IPO, the firm is set to build 26 warehouses across the country at a cost of $1 billion...
...barrage of rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades that slaughtered the soldiers as their vehicles exploded in flames. Three hours later, more than 100 Russian corpses lay amid the wreckage, according to on-the-spot wire services. It was an awful replay of the head-on tactics that had cost Moscow so many casualties--and public support for the war--in a similar assault on Grozny five years...
...four-wheel-drive, five-cylinder turbodiesel Benzes cost about $5 million, or $80,000 apiece. The new interim fast-attack vehicle (obviously a name chosen by the corps, not the manufacturer) comes in military green, with a canvas top, and has six seats--two more than the jeep. While it may lack the fancy seats and stereos sold to civilians, the IFAV does sport mounts for assorted machine guns and grenade-launchers, as well as a snorkel that will keep air flowing to the engine in 30-in.-deep water...
Although its public relations department may not realize it, the USDA has some great ammunition against the inevitable charges that it's introducing un-American food products into our school systems. Back in the 1980s, members of the Reagan administration introduced soy as a possible cost-cutting ingredient for school lunches. The soy proposal, which suffered an early demise at the hands of those who opposed Reagan's spending cuts, was also doomed by its association with the President's infamous insistence that as far as school lunchrooms were concerned, ketchup could be considered a vegetable. Today, however, once-skeptical...