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...lofty claim, since the 20-to-29 age bracket has so far been conceptualized more as a marketing tool than an active social force; its members can't even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads...
...some professors say checking can go too far, and ruin the atmosphere of a laboratory. A laboratory notebook should be a science aid, Meister says, not a tool to prove one's innocence...
...other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact on policy" -- probably because they offered only unwelcome news. Intelligence can be an important tool for decision makers, but no more than that. It is up to the politicians to make wise policy...
Nothing in Marianne Gasior's quiet life prepared her for the ordeal she has undergone in the past three years. The petite former attorney for Kennametal Inc., a Pennsylvania machine-tool maker, says she has been harassed, followed and even run off the road since she accused the company of illegally shipping metal-working equipment with military uses to Iraq. But Gasior has persisted in her whistle-blowing ways. She has now amassed evidence that, she says, threatens to expose the misdeeds of American companies as well as a vast Bush Administration cover-up of how scores of firms, some...
...Somebody got up and made this announcement that the shuttle bus was a capitalist tool...