Word: aides
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These and the other secrets coaxed from Bonnie should be digested in several months and ready to aid meteorologists in time for next year's hurricane season. Says Robbie Hood, NASA's lead scientist on the hurricane project: "I'm hopeful that with these flights we have gathered data that in the future will save lives." What nobody will predict, however, is that hurricanes have run out of surprises...
...fixing Russia remains a priority. No one in Washington has any plans to put dollars into Russia ("Any money you throw in now will go immediately into Swiss banks," says a White House aide), but they do hope to eventually bring Russia to the point where aid will again be an option. While Clinton and Yeltsin work hard to project confidence in public this week, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers will be trying to help the new Russian government cobble together a plan that will then be sold to the Germans, Japanese and the IMF. If they buy in, Moscow...
Technically, Cash is right. In Nevada, California and in fact most of the U.S., doing nothing about a crime is no crime at all. Only a handful of states--including Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota--have "duty to assist" laws requiring those who witness a crime to offer aid and report it. Cash's callousness, though, has sparked a movement in both California and Nevada to pass something called "Sherrice's law" to require witnesses to intervene and report cases of sexual assault against children. If necessary, says Najee Ali, spokesman for Sherrice's mother Yolanda Manuel, advocates of the proposed...
...AID TO PEAK PERFORMANCE...
...delightfully quaint piece of propaganda? There's no official word yet from U.S. intelligence. Perhaps North Korea is backtracking on its earlier belligerence out of fear that food aid will be withdrawn -- or KCNA is getting a little carried away in advance of Kim's inauguration Saturday. Still, it beats fireworks...