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...Bog--presents Liquid Squid Feb. 13,The Band That Time Forgot Feb. 14 and MonkeymindFeb. 15. 131 Green St. Jamaica Plain, Boston.Movies
...plodding, haggle-for-years- o ver-every-fine-point style of arms-control negotiation has become obsolete. The bargaining cannot be dispensed with yet, but it is being short- circuited by unilateral action. Discussions to get rid of tactical nuclear weapons -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles -- may bog down in minutiae. So, said Bush in effect, don't bother. Just junk those weapons. All of them. Now. And hope that induces the Soviets to follow. Says Michael Mandelbaum, a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The Bush plan is a combination of a bold stroke and bowing...
...Thanks to PCR, it is now possible to extract badly degraded DNA sequences from ancient sources and enlarge them like photographic prints. Thus far, PCR has been used to examine minuscule fragments of DNA taken from the brain cells of humans buried 8,000 years ago in a Florida bog. Analysis of such DNA can shed light on the emigration patterns of ancient peoples and perhaps some of the diseases that afflicted them. The technique has also been used to examine DNA from animal skins in natural-history museums and from the frozen remains of woolly mammoths. Among the unresolved...
...Turkish border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract the car of a Western journalist mired in a bog, he spat out a complaint: "Why? Why do you Americans allow this to happen? Saddam will kill us all -- men, women and children. Why doesn't Bush do something? Why should all my children...
...former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who all counseled temperance. No witness was more compelling than the government's own William Webster, director of the CIA, who, to the amazement of many, departed from the Administration's line when he projected that the embargoes would begin to bog down Saddam's military in three to nine months...