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Last week news of the calls to Evans and O'Neill kicked the Democrats into high gear, targeting Bush as an enemy of the little guy. The White House, said Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, "had knowledge that Enron was likely to collapse but did nothing to try to protect innocent employees and shareholders, who ultimately lost their life savings." And it's not just the Waxmans of the world that Bush has to worry about. Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the first to announce a formal congressional probe, has already sent investigators...
...other mammals, doesn't respond robustly enough to DNA alone. To amplify DNA's poor signal strength, Nabel's group sends in the "boost"--a crippled common-cold virus packed with a payload of viral antigens--a few days after priming, and the immune system goes into high gear. That's the theory, anyway...
...After Sept. 11, police say, all those plans were put into high gear. Two foreigners?one an Arab al-Qaeda member and the other an alleged bomb expert from the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front?arrived in Singapore in September or October to direct the preparations. The two men, known as Sammy and Mike, told their local contacts they needed 21 tons of ammonium nitrate and warehouse space for the construction of several truck bombs. One of the arrested Singaporeans allegedly attempted to buy 17 tons of ammonium nitrate. (The group supposedly already had four tons stored away across...
...good working sketch of the new design within a day. But engineering the machine--squeezing all the gear into the little box that Jobs wanted--took nearly two years...
...word processing, run spreadsheets, create desktop graphics and the like. The second phase was about wiring all those machines together on the Internet.) Now that we're all interconnected and productive, we're ready for the next great era: people using computers to orchestrate all the new digital gear that has steadily crept into their lives...