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...conflict has dramatically altered the atmosphere of NATO-Russian relations. "What Boris Yeltsin calls ?the march on Pristina? is being hailed in Russia as a great military victory and as a sign that Russia ?- however pathetically ?- can stand up to NATO," says Meier. And just last week Moscow set alarm bells ringing in NATO countries with a massive military exercise ?- including provocative bomber flights into Western airspace ?- designed to simulate repelling an attack from the West. "And the anti-NATO card will be played by most Russian political parties in the runup to December?s parliamentary elections and even...
...businessmen, straight or crooked, in any era have ridden that dream harder or farther than Frankel. By the time police and fire fighters responded to an alarm at his arcadian Greenwich, Conn., mansion last month to discover smoldering file cabinets full of incinerating and incriminating documents--item one on his to-do list: launder money--Frankel had constructed a financial whiz kid's Xanadu, complete with 80 trading terminals, satellite dishes, a fleet of imported cars and a bevy of female retainers he had attracted by answering personal ads and trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence...
...summer to re-learning to love Minnesota. I've lost my faint Boston accent and I'm droppin' the g's off of most'-ing' words these days. I'm walking to the grocery store and writing a check every time, and they never ask me for ID. My alarm clock is tuned to the local country music station, and I sing along in the shower to those twangy melodies I scorned in high school because I just couldn't wait to get off to the big city...
Hamm lurks wide on the wings, waiting patiently for the ball like a burglar casing a jewelry shop. When she gets it, she sets off the defense's alarm bells. Explosively fast, Hamm often outruns the support of her teammates, leaving her to fend off two or three defenders...
...SLEEP ALARM As if Parkinson's patients didn't have enough problems, doctors say a drug called Mirapex may, in rare instances, cause them to fall asleep suddenly. That's no big deal if you're in bed or even at a boring meeting, but big trouble if you're speeding down a highway...