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...international community did something, but perhaps not enough. They ladled an alphabet soup of international bureaucracy onto the potential trouble spot, beginning with "fyrom," the initials of the awkward circumlocution - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - meant to assuage the Greeks' opposition to the use of the very name Macedonia. Then there was unprofor, the United Nations Protection Force - later unpredep, for U.N. Preventive Deployment - which put a Nordic battalion and an American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently...
...problem, you have more than your diet or your gym to thank. You also owe a nod to your leptin gene. And while you're at it, tip a hat to your MC4 receptors and your PC1 enzymes and your POMC peptides. Hard to figure out the role this alphabet soup of stuff plays in helping keep you thin? Don't feel bad. It's all new to scientists...
...election-cast is threatening to become like some journalistic Hands on a Hardbody contest, as the entire iron-calved Alphabet news crew is going for their third hour standing up. (Except for George Stephanopoulous, but maybe they just didn't want to subject the poor guy to the embarrassment of being dwarfed by the statuesque Jennings.) Further accentuating the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" parallel, Jennings throws out a question to the audience - Do you think Hillary will run for president now? - to vote on at the ABC web site. Thanks, Pete, but I think tangling with the absentminded...
...desperate circumstances. A number of years ago, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could move was his left eyelid. Flicking that eyelid, he managed to signal the letters of the alphabet, and proceeded to write his autobiography, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with the last grand gesture of his life...
...first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha," he said. Both he and Krikalev had expressed favor for the name before launch, since the first letter of the Greek alphabet was neither Russian nor American. Goldin was taken aback, and somewhere off microphone huddled with others before coming back...