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Meanwhile, as Bosnian peacekeepers await word on their departure, the U.S. today sent 3,000 Marines to waters near Somalia in case President Clinton decides they're needed to help pull U.N. forces from that hotbed. "We are getting ourselves in a state of readiness," Defense Secretary William Perry said today. The 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia have been working in steadily worsening circumstances as clan warfare there has intensified. Last month the Security Council voted to end the mission by March 31, and the peacekeepers are due to be out by February.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...board. But perhaps most vociferous on the subject has been Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy, whose father spent three years in an orphanage. "Foster care cannot handle adolescent kids," maintains Murphy. "What residential care provides is consistency." Consistency is a function of duration-of-stay, however, and proponents await a commission report due out at the end of this month to suggest whether Illinois may actually defy the family-first paradigm and invest more in institutions that do what orphanages once did: hold on to children for five, 10, even 15 years...
...inspired by any facet of their lives. Though nothing upsets them particularly, they feel a let-down from their first year, in which everything was exciting and fresh. As sophomores, they have acquired a "Been there, done that" cynicism that makes them doubt that any truly new experiences await them. Others, however, take a far more negative attitude than this general ennui. They may even feel that much of their life was just plain bad, and they begin wondering why they are living their lives in this way when it makes them so unhappy...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the first commercial implantable blood pump to keep patients alive while they await heart transplants. Called the HeartMate implantable pneumatic left-ventricular assist system, the ashtray-sized device boosts the heart's main pumping chamber while the natural heart continues to perform other functions. Only 2,000 donor hearts become available each year, while more than 15,000 people may need transplants...
...even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government -- though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils of U.S. policy, it is hard for his disciples to understand why he would agree to return hand in hand with the U.S. military...