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...other stars as well. But picking out a planet against the glare of a star is like trying to spot a 100-watt light bulb next to a 100-billion-watt searchlight. Astronomers find it much easier to look for the subtle influence a planet might have on its parent star...
...lawyers approached four record companies, Sony, PolyGram, DreamWorks SKG and Disney, asking for a $100 million deal. Unsatisfied by their offers, she returned to Virgin, for which she has previously recorded, and got her $80 million. In part this may be because Thorn EMI, Virgin's parent company, is rumored to be looking to sell its music holdings and thus needs to hang on to assets like Jackson to ensure those holdings remain attractive...
...journalist, I am disturbed by the report's sensationalist tone. As an adoptive parent, I am outraged by its categorical depiction of orphanages as "death camps." Far smaller political squalls recently caused the suspension of foreign adoptions in Paraguay and Ukraine. If China follows suit, some children will lose what at the moment is their best hope for a future...
...QualMed's Hasan formally agreed to merge their companies. The merger triggered a "termination agreement" under which Greaves would receive a lump-sum payment of $1.1 million because technically he had been terminated from his former positions--even though he became cochairman and co-chief executive of the parent of the merged companies, Health Systems International, a job that paid a base salary of $865,000. "I gave up my sole authority as president, chairman and ceo," says Greaves, "and my contract said if that happens you get paid out your contract. So as any businessman would--anybody would...
...letter to one of my predecessors about the "enemy casualty" of World War II makes the point. Attending the Baccalaureate service for his son in the early 1970s, a parent noticed the designation on the World War II tablet, and wrote, "Surely the influence of Harvard University on the lives of these young men should have created within them something more enduring and worthy of commemoration than the fact that largely due to no fault of their own they found themselves under the necessity of fighting as 'enemies' against the land and people with whom they had shared the riches...