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Sojourner next turned toward Barnacle Bill, a 10-in.-high rock lying within arm's length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
Also damaging to Jones is the disillusionment of her first lawyer, Daniel Traylor, who is asking the court for leave to quit the case and thinking about giving up law practice altogether. Traylor interviewed Jones at great length, he says, but he does not recall her ever telling him about the most explosive piece of evidence--the "distinguishing characteristics" she allegedly saw on Clinton's genital area. The first Traylor heard of them was when he read a draft complaint by co-counsels Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis nearly four months after Jones had hired him. Traylor also says that...
...also offered Consol and Mettiki the option of devising any other kind of bid they wanted, and the Maryland mine came through with a 10-year bid that Consol couldn't match. With coal prices still on a downward trend that began 19 years ago, fuel contracts of that length are all but unprecedented. But Mettiki vice president for operations Tom Wynne insists there was nothing nefarious about this. "We invested every inch of our effort for two years into getting this contract," he says. "We did our homework...
...47th year of practice at Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients out the door. The average length of stay for a normal birth is two days, compared with 1.3 at Bedford Regional. And the stay is also longer at Dunn for conditions like heart failure and shock, atherosclerosis and diabetes...
...committed on women who are married but estranged from their husbands, who have recently quarreled with their husbands or who are happily married yet appear to be "asking for it." (The Commander in Chief's personal attorney, Robert Bennett, is available to determine whether the plaintiff's hairstyle, skirt length, etc., constituted a criminal provocation...