Word: andrews
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...even added a bit of a spin: a sense that the boycott was aimed directly at the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi that has been a target of largely ineffectual U.N. sanctions since 1993. Explains De Beers spokesman Andrew Lamont: "The only goal is to do as much as we can to help the U.N. to limit the ability of UNITA to carry on the conflict...
...call mathematics a fin-de-siecle craze would be a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something remarkable about how the most arcane of academic disciplines has finally implanted itself firmly in popular culture. The trend began in 1994 when Princeton University's Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, a cantankerous problem that had defeated the best mathematical minds for more than 350 years. Not since Archimedes ran naked from his bathtub shouting "Eureka!" has a mathematician received more publicity. PEOPLE magazine put him on its list of "the 25 most intriguing people of the year...
...PRICE OF HAPPINESS What's a good marriage worth? Economists David Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Andrew Oswald at England's University of Warwick calculate that a lasting marriage adds happiness equivalent to an extra $100,000 a year. They also say that yes, higher income equals greater happiness; that to make up for the sadness of losing a job would require an extra $60,000 a year; and that while the gap has diminished over the years, whites are happier than blacks--about $30,000 happier...
...Dejan Anastasijevic and Andrew Purvis/Vienna
...light of the ongoing bombing and shelling of the city and of Moscow media reports last Friday that Russian forces had fired on a civilian refugee convoy. "The Russians' track record of giving safe passage to civilians in this conflict isn't very strong," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "If the Russians actually carry out their threat, a lot of people are going...