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Freshman Sarah Vaillancourt led the way for Harvard with a hat trick as the offense once again relied on the strength of its power play to blow past the Saints...
...former President Boris Yeltsin, shrugged off an apparent assassination attempt, telling journalists he was expecting an attack. Assailants detonated a mine and strafed Chubais' car with automatic rifle fire as it left his home in the village of Zhavoronki, some 40 km outside Moscow. No one was injured. A Blow to Progress LEBANON The anti-Syrian opposition dismissed President Emile Lahoud's call for them to enter talks with loyalist factions, which came after a car bomb in Beirut injured 11 people, boosting fears of renewed bloodshed as Syrian troops start to withdraw. The Ties That Bind CHINA Taiwanese President...
...Stealth bomber and the Batmobile. And you don't want to be seen wrestling with the roof, since it's little more than an erector set with a fabric tarp and may require an engineering degree to dismantle. If you hit 100 m.p.h., Lamborghini warns, the roof might blow off--and how embarrassing would that be, losing your...
...intelligence chief and his staff. Symbolically at least, it indicates that the DNI--who has the authority to hire 500 employees but whose role in the byzantine intelligence bureaucracy is still not entirely clear--will have a solid foothold in turf-conscious Washington. The news came as a particular blow to Pentagon boosters, who are fearful that the DNI will threaten the Defense Department's 80% share of the $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget...
...comes what may be the crowning blow--at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older...