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probably only interesting to me...Business 2.0 The Power of Optimal Pricing"You can't out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart"...

Iraq Matter For U.N.It would be appreciated if you would exercise your influence and do all within your power to help stop any preemptive war on Iraq. This is a matter for the U.N. to become involved with, of which we are a part and not the total.I know Saddam, himself, is a rogue. However, let's not allow the United States to become a larger one. Such an act, in my opinion, would be completely against all our morals, values and heritage.We have to protect ourselves, but we have for...

Anthrax: A Possible Case History Thomas V. InglesbyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USAFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in five U.S. cities have received warnings of an imminent bioterrorist attack. Each threat indicated that a "shower of anthrax would rain on U.S. cities," unless certain demands were met immediately. One of these calls was in Northeast, a large city on the Eastern Seaboard with a metropolitan population of 2 million. The threats were credible, but no information was relayed to city officials in Northeast or elsewhere. On the...

My grandfather, a colonel in the US Army during WWII, told me a great little story about General Patton. I'm not sure how he knew him; maybe from OCS or serving under him, but he knew alot about what Patton was like.My grandfather told me of a time when Patton was in Europe and was speaking to some new recruits who had just arrived near the frontlines. Patton points off into the distant fighting and says to the men: "You are not here to die for your country, you are...

Lately I've been a one-man crime stopping machine. In the past two months, I've helped get 4 people arrested, 5 people fired, and stopped 2 shoplifters. I don't know why all the sudden I'm noticing all these people stealing. Are they stealing because the economy is weak? or are they just stealing to steal? It seems like the latter, but they didn't take into account my sudden supernatural attention to detail. I closed the fuel station tonite up at the store and caught my closing helper trying to gank a...

9.11.01#650 | Wednesday, January 23rd 2002I was frantically weaving in and out of traffic trying to make it to the commuter lots. I hadn't left the house early enough to get to my test with any time to spare. I sprang out of my car and ran to the campus shuttle stops. I noticed people were abnormally somber and reserved, but I didn't really care why. Packed on the bus with 80 other people, i was sitting. I was sitting with three other students’ butts in my face, daydreaming about...

I can't really think of a time when I actually watched a tennis match all the way through. I don't even think that would be true in matches that I played in. I couldn't think of a better US Open final than Agassi-Sampras; two people we all tried to be like in our tennis-playing days. I still remember the first time I used a Tournagrip. It was the greatest grip known to man. Why? Because Pete Sampras endorses it; enough reason for any high school male tennis player. In fact,...

Barry Bonds, winner of four MVP awards, believes he has a good chance to win No. 5. He believes Curt Schilling, who may also receive strong consideration for the MVP, should not be a candidate. Schillng is 22-5 with 282 strikeouts for the first-place Diamondbacks. But Bonds believes Schilling -- and other pitchers -- should not be eligible for the MVP."No, never," Bonds told MLB.com. "What does Schilling do after today? What does he do tomorrow? It don't matter. They've got to win. That position player plays 100-something games. Schilling...