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...team, that has clocked the second fastest time (3:51) going into Heps. Senior captain Amanda Williams, who was last year's 400 meter champion, is favored again in this event. And senior Karen Goetze is running strong in the 800 meters coming close to breaking the 2:12 barrier this season with a best...
...Liberties Union immediately filed suit over a provision banning "indecent" material from electronic networks, saying the measure abridges free speech. Many popular Internet sites also turned their backgrounds black in protest. While the smut provision has captured many of the headlines, several other important measures also became law. The barrier between long-distance and local providers is now gone. AT&T announced moments after the bill was signed that it will enter local telephone markets by this summer, while local phone giant GTE said it will team up with the nation's fourth-largest long-distance provider to market services...
...went into the meet hoping to get the NCAA qualifying mark of 8:01.5, and also I wanted to break the eight-minute barrier," Carswell said of the 3000 meters...
...advent of genetic engineering, among other things, has allowed researchers to begin breaching that natural barrier. Last spring scientists at Duke University Medical Center reported that they had successfully altered the genetic makeup of a strain of pigs. As a result, the researchers managed to fool the immune systems of three baboons into accepting pig hearts, for a short while at least. Using a similar technique, the British biotechnology company Imutran has produced a herd of 300 genetically altered swine. The company expects to transplant either a pig's heart or a liver into a human subject later this year...
...Syria and Israel are meeting today at a secluded 1,100-acre estate about 50 miles from Washington for talks that both sides hope will lay the groundwork for a peace agreement. The talks are being brokered by the United States. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports: "The principal barrier is clearly the future of the Golan Heights. Israel has refused to give it up entirely, and Syrian President Hafez Assad hasn't changed his position one iota. He wants control over the entire Golan Heights region. That means no Israeli presence whatsoever. Assad is very shrewd, and he knows...