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...that it would no longer need an engine for the plane that was to be built in part by Britain's Rolls-Royce. In response, Paul Drayson, Britain's Minister for Defense Procurement, blasted the U.S. in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last month and threatened to pull Britain out of the JSF program. "We expect ... to be properly consulted on decisions of this magnitude," he said...
...about to start following convention. He continues to shun attention, thus getting it. "Al has gone into his temporary hiding mode," says his spokesman. Instead of pep talks, his franchisees get the tough love usually reserved for customers. Yeganeh changes the menu at will, and he will pull a popular soup out of rotation if he thinks it could be better. "We've already had three different kinds of bread," says franchise owner Lisa Ruddy, whose Princeton shop opened in October. "Al is obviously temperamental, but he's an artist," says John Bello, CEO of the new venture, Soup Kitchen...
Fred Krupp wants to do something about the carbon dioxide that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks. But why is the president of Environmental Defense looking for solutions in tropical rain forests and Kansas cornfields? Because forests and fields pull greenhouse gases from the air. So Krupp, 52, went to Brazil to urge protection of the Amazon basin and to Kansas to promote no-till farming. Plowing fields releases CO2; if farmers plant seeds without tilling, three-quarters of a metric ton of carbon per acre could be stored every year...
QUADRICEPS Lie on your right side, grab your left ankle and pull it as far back as you can for 10 to 20 sec. Then turn over and repeat; four times per side...
...average cops-and-robbers soirée. Perhaps its trickiest feat is balancing two distinct storylines: a cop movie (the police are the good guys and the drama is behind the barricades) and a heist movie (the robbers are the good guys and the fun is in seeing them pull off their convoluted plot). It is hard to cheer for both sides at once, but the movie makes it possible (no telling who wins in the end, though) by directing all our antipathy towards another, separate villain (who happens to have Nazi ties...