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...bumped off Steve Day (Kris Kristofferson, right), commander of Netforce, the elite FBI unit set up to police the Internet in 2005? Was it Mafia don Leong Cheng? Nerdy computer titan Bill Gates--oops, strike that--Will Stiles? More important, who is sabotaging the Netforce computer system and threatening global stability? Trust acting command- er Alex Michaels (Scott Bakula, left) to get to the bottom of it all. After a choppy start, the multiple storylines of Netforce rev up smoothly, coalesce and--with a couple of neat twists--hit the finish line grandly...
...sheer dimensions of the brutalization in Freetown in the past few weeks have been hard even for resolute aid workers to withstand. The images that flash by them are otherworldly, they say. Marie de la Soudiere, who heads the International Rescue Committee's Children in Armed Conflict Unit, is still haunted by the shy six-year-old girl outside Freetown who raised the stump of her arm and asked, "Will my fingers grow back...
Your article "Five Ways Out," accompanying your series on tax incentives and subsidies for companies [SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE WELFARE, Nov. 30], mentioned Hobart Corp., a unit of PMI Food Equipment Group, stating that in 1995 the company moved its Dayton, Ohio, plant to Piqua, Ohio, as a result of tax incentives, and that employees had only three days' notice before the closing. In fact, the relocation decision occurred only after Hobart determined that its Dayton facility was antiquated and inefficient. The move would have occurred regardless of any tax incentives, which to date have been less than...
...President Carlos Salinas [BUSINESS, Dec. 14], there were a few points I did not understand. You said Raul Salinas' wife, using an alias, carried cashier's checks to Citibank Mexico City. Since these were for very large sums of money, I should think someone in Citibank's private-banking unit would have asked immediately about the origin of that money. Further, you noted that once Citibank had the funds, "no documents linked that money to Salinas." That shows an extraordinary amount of trust on Salinas' part. How could he ever prove the money was his? The bank could have cheated...
...that would unlock the mysteries of human heredity. In the U.S., biologist Charles Davenport (1866-1944) established, with the help of a $10 million endowment from the Carnegie Institution, a center for research in human evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. A strict Mendelian, Davenport believed so-called single-unit genes determined such traits as alcoholism and feeblemindedness. The way to eradicate such failings in the human stock, he argued, was to prevent their carriers from reproducing. He voiced the hope that "human matings could be placed upon the same high plane as that of horse breeding." He declared that...