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...disputes have gone beyond such bureaucratic tussles. Take those baggage-screening machines. Baumgartner complains that the explosive-detection system (EDS) machines selected by the TSA are too finicky, slow and error prone. Last winter Baumgartner hired his own consultants to look into bag-screening technology, and they chose a device made by a German manufacturer, Heimann. The TSA's machine tests for density but can't tell for sure whether the suspicious mass is explosives or chocolate, whereas the Heimann machine uses a more sophisticated X-ray method that can make such distinctions by computer. The Heimann machine is capable...
...Messier's first mistake was in perhaps biting off more companies than he could easily digest, his fundamental error in France was that he made enemies along the way with his insistence that American business culture was the future model that Vivendi would have to follow to be successful, a notion that rankled coming from a man who led both France's public water utility and one of its cultural centerpoints, the pay-TV company Canal Plus...
...knew? KEN LIVINGSTONE London mayor allegedly pushes tabloid reporter over a wall. Britons are excited?they haven't had a two-fisted politician since Thatcher BERNIE EBBERS Ex-WorldCom CEO summoned by U.S. Congress. That whole bull market thing during the '90s? Never mind. It was an accounting error...
...speculating that the result has been decided in advance. In their defense, Italian former player Lea Pericoli recently said, "For two friends [to compete] it can be difficult. For two from the same country, very difficult. For sisters, impossible." Maybe that is what made the Roland Garros match so error-strewn. The statistics showed just how disappointing the match was. In the 149 points of the match, 115 produced unforced errors, with 13 breaks of serve and 14 double faults. Even the girls' normally blistering serves slowed down by as much as 30 km/h. When the sister act reaches Wimbledon...
...final two rounds of the tournament were single-elimination, leaving no margin for error. Against the second-seeded Clarkson Golden Knights, Grumet-Morris lasted the entirety of sudden death overtime, stopping 39 shots and stymieing the Golden Knights offense...