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...would produce a round of fresh evidence for increasingly wary lawmakers as early as next week. After dispatching dozens of G.I. patrols to some 300 suspected WMD sites in Iraq over the past two months, only to come up empty-handed, the Pentagon announced last week that it will shift from hunting for banned weapons to hunting for documents and people who might be able to say where banned weapons are--or were. But it is clear that the U.S. is running out of good leads. "We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border...
Driven by the low cost of play, the easy social interaction, the increase in the number of female players and the coverage of professional tournaments on ESPN, the sport has expanded, prompting not only a shift in many of the old halls but also the construction of a slew of new, pristine, family-friendly pool dens. Says Mike Aube, who opened up Suzie-Cue's Family Billiards in Palatine, Ill., four years ago, after his teenage daughters complained that they didn't have a place to play: "Today halls are welcoming. They're more like family restaurants...
These efforts mark a shift in tactics. Rather than seek slavery reparations from the U.S. government--a move that has little support in Congress--advocates are taking a cue from successful compensation suits by Holocaust victims and focusing on corporations. Among the defendants are such insurance companies as Aetna; financial-services companies, including FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase; and such railroad giants as CSX and Union Pacific. Although the municipal ordinances don't address reparations, they require companies to research their records to disclose whether they benefited from slavery--information that could help identify "specific targets for reparations," says Deadria...
Detroit automakers are jumping on the bandwagon, fitting concept cars like this year's Dodge Avenger with gargantuan 20-in. wheels. But carmakers know that if the wheels are too big, they can screw up the power steering or transmission. Hence the industry's slow shift to 17-in. rims. Over the past two years, shipments to automakers of 17-in. tires have risen 9%, while shipments of 15-inchers have fallen nearly 12%. Even BMW's pint-size Mini Cooper comes with optional 17-in. wheels...
...Middle Ages people have built tidal mills, trapping an incoming tide in a storage pond to turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough to erode and shift entire coastlines. And so later this year a small South Wales company called Tidal Hydraulic Generators (THG) plans to lower a steel frame supporting five 6-m diameter turbines to the floor of the Severn Estuary. The tubes will translate the power of the tide as it ebbs and flows into...