Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON (AP.)--President Clinton's top military advisers face tough questioning as two Senate committees begin investigations into the June 25 terrorist truck bombing that left 19 U.S. Air Force personnel dead in Saudi Arabia...
...rejected an offer to address the NAACP convention, citing "major scheduling conflicts." What's so important? A cameo at the All Star baseball game in Philadelphia. Though Dole is hardly a prime candidate for the NAACP endorsement this year, the snub comes as the Republican Party has pledged to begin making serious inroads with African-Americans. But TIME Washington correspondent Tamala Edwards reports that Dole's campaign staff thinks the potential downside far outweighs the modicum of good will the NAACP appearance might generate. "They are afraid that he might put his foot in his mouth, especially when he speaks...
...that a temperature rise of 4 [degrees] F would more than double mosquito metabolism, forcing them to feed more often. A 4 [degrees] F rise in global temperatures could also expand malaria's domain from 42% to 60% of the planet. When temperatures rise above 104 [degrees] F, mosquitoes begin to die off--but at those temperatures, so do people and the crops on which they live...
After months of wooing by major news organizations, globetrotting correspondent Christiane Amanpour announced she will stay put at CNN while adding something new to her portfolio: she'll soon begin contributing to CBS's 60 Minutes. The unprecedented deal will reportedly earn her $2 million a year--and even greater exposure. Said she: "It is a journalist's dream...
...start of his exploration into the convoluted soul of Jesse Jackson, biographer Marshall Frady makes two highly charged assertions about the hugeness of the task. Any serious evaluation of Jackson, he writes, must begin with the acknowledgement that "the fundamental American crisis is that of race"; and with a recognition that the gulf between blacks and whites remains so deep that there are "inherent limits to any white writer's understanding beyond which he properly should not venture...