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...next day, Nov. 3, 1999, Morgan died in the hospital; Pena watched her slip away. Poust received two minor traffic citations and later paid an undisclosed civil settlement. Pena went to bed and remained there for months. But her phone was within reach, and every time a reporter called, she wailed her story into it. That's how she launched a crusade to bar cell phone use while driving. In a debate complicated by high-powered lobbyists and murky data, Pena became the one clear voice. In 18 months she has testified before Congress and five state and local legislatures...
...Michela Wrong points out that Lumumba had been considered so dangerous by Washington that President Eisenhower actually signed off on an assassination plot. The idea was to slip him a poison that would mimic a fatal local disease. Devlin told Wrong that he kept the poison in his desk for several months and then dumped it in the river. In the end it wasn't necessary...
...once did Yazawa let slip that Sony was working on software to bring AIBO into this visionary future sooner rather than later. All he'd say was: "this is just the beginning of robots in the home." He's right. This is sure to be a hit with the still-can't-program-my-VCR set. That means a bigger market, a lower price, and in the long run a lot more of these Chihuahua-sized critters running around the place, accompanying us to the grocery store and on family visits. Not that I'm complaining. More AIBOs mean more...
...next day, Nov. 3, 1999, Morgan died in the hospital; Pena watched her slip away. Poust received two minor traffic citations and later paid an undisclosed civil settlement. Pena went to bed and remained there for months. But her phone was within reach, and every time a reporter called, she wailed her story into it. That's how she launched a crusade to bar cell phone use while driving. In a debate complicated by high-powered lobbyists and murky data, Pena became the one clear voice. In 18 months she has testified before Congress and five state and local legislatures...
...reassure local people about what they stood to gain. "If you want to work successfully in France, you've got to be totally sensitive to local culture and integrated into the community," concedes its representive in France, David Pearson. And Aniane's voters may have let the future slip through their fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone...