One girl raised her hand to ask: “How did you get to be president?” The First Lady demurred and said she just married one. That night she and the president she married went to dinner at a Tex-Mex place in Arlington, Va.–a signal to America that life should get back to normal. The day was a taste of things to come. Before Sept. 11, she was headed for perhaps the quietest First Ladyship since Bess Truman’s....
And there is much left to do. For all the euphoria, South Africa’s violence and inequity are too deep-rooted to disappear in a day. Although the margin of victory was far higher than even de Klerk’s boosters had predicted, many whites who voted for de Klerk did so reluctantly–often out of fear that international sanctions would be restored if the “no” option won. “You have to vote with your brain, not with your heart,” shrugged Waldo Schirge, a 32-year-old engineering technician....
The cells are “neither embryonic nor adult. They’re somewhere in between,” says Dr. Anthony Atala, a tissue-engineering specialist at Wake Forest University who led the research team. (The study appears in the journal Nature Biotechnology.) The “AFS cells” rival embryonic stem cells in their ability to multiply and transform into many different cell types, and they eventually could be hugely helpful to doctors in treating diseases throughout the body and building new organs in the lab....
Not convinced? Even DaimlerChrysler seemed unsure last week, when it was grinding gears trying to figure out the best way to pitch its new king-of-the-road 4-by-4. On Wednesday it revealed plans to launch the snub-nosed behemoth in America in 2002, with a modest sales goal of about 1,000 units a year. Unimog–German shorthand for universal motorized machine–is a work truck that’s been used to haul military troops and fight fires for 50 years....
In more than two decades as IOC president, Samaranch, 80, has transformed what was an amateur enterprise on and off the field into a billion-dollar juggernaut showcasing the world’s finest pro athletes and backed by the world’s largest corporations. His legacy, however, has been tarnished by the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, which, without implicating him directly, revealed corruption at the heart of the IOC process that awarded the Games....
Thanks to a couple of telltale clues, I guessed quickly that Klein was the culprit. But Joe lied to me and everyone else (except NEWSWEEK’s editor, who got heat for keeping the secret), confessing only after The Washington Post confronted him with his marked-up manuscript. Boy, was I mad at Klein then. But time and an apology have made us friendly again. The only angst caused by his sequel, “The Running Mate” (416 pages....
As the old Soviet centrally planned economy continues to collapse, the country is caught in the Great Russian Depression. However shabby the welfare state of the former Soviet Union, it did provide security. That is now in very short supply. On top of all this is the resentment and humiliation that many Russians feel as they struggle with the question of identity. The empire is gone; dialectical materialism has given way to Madison Avenue materialism....
title: “A New Twist” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-10” author: “Kurt Marlowe”
The announcement follows years of research and the most comprehensive reconstruction of the Mediterranean’s geological history, a process that involved extensive mapping of the region’s seas and mountain ranges over the last 240 million years. It was particularly challenging because geologically-speaking the area is incredibly complex—or, as lead investigator Douwe van Hinsbergen explained, it’s “a mess”. “It is quite simply a geological mess: everything is curved, broken, and stacked,” van Hinsbergen, a professor in global tectonics and paleogeography at Utrecht University, said in a statement....
What’s the hurry? Why not wait awhile and see how the economy plays out? Treating long-term projections like they’re facts is folly. For heaven’s sake, even the Great Greenspan screwed up a short-term forecast last fall by not seeing that the economy was softening. That mistake is why he’s cutting interest rates so sharply, an economic cardiologist trying to keep his patient from croaking. So answer me this: if the plugged-in experienced Greenspan couldn’t foresee the economy four months ahead, how can anyone think the Congressional Budget Office (or anyone) can foresee the economy 10 years ahead?...
Common Sense Issues is a tax-exempt group registered in Delaware whose organizers have acknowledged the use of controversial telephone polling tactics to promote Huckabee’s presidential bid—and allegedly to trash the campaigns of the former Arkansas governor’s rivals. The nonprofit also helped set up and run Trusthuckabee.com, a Web site that was involved in front-line efforts to recruit and mobilize Huckabee supporters to turn out for the Iowa caucuses. Rival candidates have criticized Common Sense Issues’s tactics, questioning whether the group’s ties to the Huckabee campaign are really arms-length—as required by federal law....
For Rockwood, the Army’s passivity was intolerable. The son, grandson and great-grandson of military men, he once studied to be a Roman Catholic priest. His duty to obey his commander conflicted with his duty to his conscience. So he decided to take matters into his own hands: to personally liberate the most notorious of Haitian prisons, the National Penitentiary. Rockwood’s defiance of orders cost him his career, and his story, taken from interviews and his court-martial record, dramatically illustrates the dilemma of a modern peacekeeping Army....
With Democratic losses looming, the blame game has already begun. Former House whip Tony Coelho, an unpaid adviser to the Democratic National Committee, is drawing fire for promising more money to California gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown’s flagging campaign without first checking with the White House. The DNC has so far refused to cough up. Democratic sources say Coelho’s freewheeling ways could cost him a shot at running Clinton’s ‘96 campaign: ““He’s a total lone ranger,’’ says a DNC official....
Judges in the case seemed to follow a reverse logic. “Hong Kong is at an early stage” in its transition to Chinese rule, wrote Chief Justice Andrew Li in the unanimous decision. Protecting the “unique symbolism” of the flag will help “national unity and territorial integrity.” Undoubtedly, it will also help remind Hong Kong’s 6.7 million residents who really calls the shots.
Given his recent track record, Allen may be singing about his business decisions. The man who helped build Microsoft, then bailed from Bill Gates’s side in the early ’80s (and kept his Microsoft stock) is showing a remarkable reverse Midas touch: many of his companies are doing horribly. Charter Communications, a cable company based in St. Louis, sits at the center of Allen’s vision for a wired world, with broadband carrying interactive entertainment into our living rooms....
ln districts across the country, public schools are experimenting with sexual segregation, in the name of school reform. There is no precise tally, in part because schools are wary of drawing attention to classes that may violate gender-bias laws. But, researchers say, in more than a dozen states–including Texas, Colorado, Michigan and Georgia–coed schools are creating single-sex classes. Some, like Marsteller, believe that separating the sexes will eliminate distractions. Others, like Robert Coleman Elementary in Baltimore, made the move primarily to get boys to work harder and tighten up discipline....
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On a recent Saturday in the visitors clubhouse at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, a handful of Oakland Athletics players were bantering about the conspiracy theory that the moon landings were a hoax. Really, relief pitcher Chris Bassitt was doing most of the talking, playing the role of a skeptic. “Look at this,” he said, passing his phone to a teammate to show him a picture. “I don’t trust that thing to get me to Walmart....
To the astonishment of all, Nixon, instead of just passing, chose to exercise his right of rebuttal to comment on the answer, embarking on a flight of sanctimony. For example: “I see mothers holding their babies up so they can see a man who might be president … I can only say that I’m very proud that President Eisenhower restored … good language to the conduct of the presidency. ....
