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...political gambit, the method is tried and true. If you are an unpopular Vice President, refurbish your image by deriding an occupational group with an even lower approval rating than your own. Spiro Agnew popularized the ploy back in 1969 with his bitter denunciations of the news media. Following the same playbook, Vice President Dan Quayle -- a lawyer -- wangled an invitation to the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta and last week used the forum to mount a blistering attack on the legal profession...
...automatic door opener so that he could let the dog out each morning without leaving his bed. As an adult, he invented a system to dim lights simply by thinking erotic thoughts. Even PCR was an attempt to devise a less laborious way of copying DNA than the method used by living cells. "When I saw how nature does it, I thought, 'That's totally crazy.' " he says...
...nurses were prohibited not only from counseling on abortion but even from pointing patients to Yellow Pages listings of clinics that would offer such advice. If a woman asked about terminating her pregnancy, doctors were instructed to recite these words: "The project does not consider abortion an appropriate method of family planning and therefore does not counsel or refer for abortion." The directive did not take effect immediately because it was challenged in several state courts, but the Supreme Court cleared away those obstacles when it declared the gag rule constitutional...
...consisted of dozens of shell companies, offshore banks, branches and subsidiaries in 70 countries. It was incomprehensible even to its own financial officers and auditors. The bank's extensive use of unregulated Cayman Islands accounts enabled it to hide almost anything. The bank's complex organization and unique method of accounting -- longhand in paper ledgers, written in Pakistan's Urdu language -- make it unlikely that most of the missing money will be traced. Nor is it likely that anyone will ever know just how much Abedi, who has incorporated a new bank, called the Progressive Bank, in Karachi, stole from...
...more countries using calutrons. They are so expensive and relatively ! inefficient as to be attractive only to a dictator like Saddam, desperate to get his hands on a bomb at any cost. Nonetheless, says a senior British diplomat, "what we must do now is provide controls for every conceivable method of making nukes." At minimum, there must be a far more extensive and intrusive inspection process than the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (which Iraq signed) now provides. Saddam wannabes may be rare, but one would be more than enough...