In the 21st century, corporate competitiveness will be generated from womanpower. Utilization of female resources should not be viewed from the perspective of gender equality or consideration for women.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 11:53 PM

Haji Gullalai said he believed the cleric, who founded the fundamentalist militia in 1994, was hiding in next-door Helmand province, but said he could not give an exact location for the recluse who surrendered his power base of Kandahar to anti-Taliban Pashtun tribal forces on December 7.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 11:46 PM

Mr Duhalde, the populist Peronist senator for Buenos Aires Province, was confirmed by an overwhelming majority of 260 to 21 votes, with 18 abstentions, after a five-hour debate.
His election came after rival demonstrators clashed outside and police intervened with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 11:43 PM

Baloch has been detained since Sept. 20 for being in the United States illegally, Doiron said.
"That's all we've been able to obtain so far," he said. "We have not yet received the State Department reply to our diplomatic note," of mid-December, in which Canadian officials asked for an explanation of what had happened.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 11:39 PM

The IBM glass engine enables deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works.

This is an utterly wonderful piece of multimedia and I highly encourage messing around with it if you're on a high speed net connection.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 10:34 PM

"Neglected" is too strong a word: "misunderstood," perhaps, or "undervalued" would be a better word. Undervalued to a dangerous extent. Rachmaninoff is not sufficiently recognized as a composer on purely musical -- and certainly on spiritual -- terms. People tend to overlook that. Remember the verdict in the fifth edition (1954) of Grove's Dictionary: that his music would not last and that it was artificial and gushing. To my mind, what Rachmaninoff has to express is of eternal value. I am convinced of that.

Posted by at January 01, 2002 10:25 PM

"Subject is snowballing," one member jotted in his notes. "Where do we go from here?"
One option, as a member put it, was to "sell the hell out of them as long as we can." Another option was to stop making them immediately. But the committee instead recommended "The Responsible Approach" -- phasing out its PCB products, but only once it could develop alternatives.The idea was to maintain "one of Monsanto's most profitable franchises" as long as possible while taking care to "reduce our exposure in terms of liability." The committee even drew up graphs charting profits vs. liability over time, and urged more studies to poke holes in the government's case against PCBs.
But the company's own tests on rats, chickens and even dogs proved discouraging. "The PCBs are exhibiting a greater degree of toxicity than we had anticipated," reported the committee chairman. Fish tests were worse: "Doses which were believed to be OK produced 100% kill." The chairman pressured the company's consultants for more Monsanto-friendly results, but they replied: "We are very sorry that we can't paint a brighter picture at the present time."

Posted by at January 01, 2002 10:54 AM