Word: ares
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Eight new laureates are honored for their work in econometrics, the genetic basis of cancer, the inner workings of cells, and precise measurements of time.
Once a vanishing institution, mom-and-pop booksellers are thriving as never before by offering what chains like Waldenbooks can't: flavor, expertise and variety of stock.
You wouldn't want to be General Manuel Noriega the next time George Bush gets a bead on him. For reasons having more to do with random events and petty frustration than with any rational calculus of relative evil and threat to the nation, the pit-faced Panamanian dictator is...
However, the real roots of the assassination ban are American and idealistic, not worldly and cynical. Assassination, said Secretary of State George Shultz, defending the ban after the Libya bombing, "doesn't fit our way of thinking on how to do things." Legal adviser Sofaer says, "Americans have a distaste...
Battery Park City may be the ultimate in recycling: 24 acres of earth that were scooped out to build the giant World Trade Center a block away were dumped on the marshy edge of the Hudson River, forming the nucleus of a new 92-acre chunk of land. And -- hallelujah...