This thought hit me with force Thursday as I sat at a breakfast in Denver given by the South Metropolitan Denver Chamber of Commerce.

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Indeed, that was as fine a start to the day as I could imagine until a few weeks ago, when I sat down for breakfast at Prime Meats, a Brooklyn restaurant specializing in hearty Alpine dishes.

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"They're locked in a debate right now where they've sort of lost sight of the goal, " says Kaufman, who sat in on a breakfast meeting Friday with Negroponte and Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel.

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The seven crew members of the shuttle Discovery were awakened in their quarters at 8:30 Thursday morning and sat down to the traditional NASA breakfast of steak and eggs, along with lighter options like fruit, cereal and bagels--fussy fare unheard of in the meat-and-potatoes Mercury days.

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