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...shaped orbit, the eighth planet has been outermost since 1979 and will be through 1998. But astronomers suspect that the sun's family actually extends far beyond either of these two planets. Out there in the frigid darkness beyond any known planet, they believe, lies the Kuiper belt, a ring of dusty ice chunks that surrounds the solar system. Beyond that, astronomers say, is the similarly composed Oort cloud, which forms a vast sphere around our planetary system. The cloud stretches two light-years from the sun, halfway to Alpha Centauri, the next nearest star. Occasionally...
...strangers appeared at her window, forced her out of the car and sped off. Basu, her left arm still helplessly tangled in the harness strap of her seat belt, was dragged facedown across the coarse pavement until there was nothing left of her clothes but the bloodstained blouse on her back...
Afterward, Clinton worked his way down the rope line, waving, shaking, touching, posing, always smiling, his blue dress shirt damp with perspiration, the Secret Service agents clinging to his belt when he leaned far into the crowd. The faces of Manchester conveyed the Music Man message that "there's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to greet you." The mood was warm and enveloping as Clinton heard each message of encouragement. "We owe it all to you." "You're doing great." "You'll be a great President...
...world attention has centered on Sarajevo, the Serbs and Croats who already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava...
...wackos out there, and the state's lousy economy is blamed on us. We'd need a big recovery to get competitive there, and we're not going to get it." The bottom line of this early speculation is familiar: another election decided by small margins in the Rust Belt bastions -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan...