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...what, where, when questions. After the meeting my Afghan colleague and I talk about the earlier phone calls, and again confirm that the voices inside Afghanistan need to play a lead role in helping to resolve the current Afghan crisis. We call them again and make plans to ring again tomorrow...
...living wage? Consult the data: Harvard’s fiscal income for the year 2000 was $2.02 billion. Its expenses that year totaled $1.90 billion. When confronted with an annual operating surplus of $120 million, arguments about Harvard’s financial incapacity to pay a living wage ring hollow...
...evidence. "The culture in our agencies has changed," he claimed, even though just 48 hours before, the scientists and sleuths had been pointing fingers at one another. "We've got a great response mechanism in place," he said, even though each time health officials have responded to one ring of infection, they have found they had drawn the circle too tight. "We've got a strategy to fight the war on the home front," he said, but no one could tell you what the strategy was, and with good reason. Events were moving so quickly that today's rumor...
...TOXINS ATTACH TO CELL One of the toxins, called protective antigen, attaches to a receptor found on most cells. When seven of them find their mark, they latch together, forming a ring with a hole in its center. Then one of the other toxins--either a killing toxin or a swelling toxin--plugs the hole...
...errors in making change. End-of-shift reconciliation is automatic, so there's no clumsy comparing of credit-card receipts with the register. "People can't sift through the trash and find your credit-card number," points out Joe Ely, technical officer for 2Scoot. "And they can't ring up $7 on the register, put $27 on the credit-card machine and pocket the $20." Installation of an RFID reader costs about $300--about half the cost of a reader for credit cards. And customers get the wands or tags free...