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...quarters, Kahn finally found time to correct the status of his residency in the U.S. After flying home to France, where he has become something of a national hero in absentia, Kahn stopped by the U.S. embassy in Paris and picked up the papers making him a legal alien...
...human rights group EarthRights International brought Unocal to federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of Burmese villagers suffering from the alleged violations during pipeline construction, which ended in 1998. The suit, Doe v. Unocal, was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a 1789 law that allows aliens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law. The group pursued a separate suit in California state court...
...least two years, the pair allegedly shipped stolen replacement parts for F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft to Iran, a country that has not legally received U.S. weapons since the takeover by Ayatullah Khomeini in 1979. Customs officials say an anonymous source tipped them to Franklin Agustin, an illegal alien from the Philippines...
...paws shaped like miniature dolphin flippers or swollen to the size of their larger relative, the rat. They are called transgenic mice, and in a nobly selfless fashion, they are revolutionizing modern biology. Hidden somewhere along the twisting chain of DNA found in every cell of their bodies are alien genes, injected by biologists. The study of these mutants and the effects of the interloping genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what switches DNA on and off, and how a single cell blossoms into a complex organism like a mouse or a human being. Someday...
Hollywood first became aware of alien visitors in the '50s, when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...