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...there was one in particular who bore careful scrutiny. Guandique attacked two female joggers in Rock Creek Park in the months surrounding Levy's disappearance, on May 14 and July 1. In both cases, brandishing a knife, he attacked his victims from behind and wrestled them to the ground. (Both struggled to free themselves and were able to escape relatively unscathed.) Apprehended after the second attack, Guandique admitted during questioning that he had seen Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park...
...there's little reason to worry. NASA told TIME on Sunday that the events seen and heard earlier in the day bore the hallmarks of a natural incident; debris from a satellite collision is generally too small to be seen. The satellites involved in last week's cosmic crack-up were relatively small machines. The Russian ship weighed 1,235 lbs.; the American ship was about a ton. Once that mass is broken up into smaller pieces, the atmosphere ought to do a pretty good job of incinerating it. Skylab did shower the Australian outback with wreckage during its reentry...
...Iran experts agree, though, that such small-bore cooperation will lead to meaningful discussion on the big issues: nukes and terrorism. Mann Leverett warns that such cooperation will fail unless accompanied by talks with "a comprehensive agenda, leading to a rapprochement and a strategic understanding between Iran...
...Leslie H. Gelb, of the Council on Foreign Relations, believes the Iranians won't be interested in small accommodations and will probably hold out for more substantive discussion. That's because the Iranians have been down the road of small-bore cooperation with the U.S. before, most recently on Afghanistan, and have invariably been left with nothing to show for their efforts. "They'll wait for a [broader] conversation," he says. Only after comprehensive talks begin, Gelb says,"can there be individual acts of cooperation by each side, to show good faith...
...Counselors were even permitted to discuss elective abortion if the woman asked. Moreover, the move aligned our foreign policy with the reasoning behind the Hyde Amendment to Medicaid appropriations bills, first passed in 1976, which prohibited federal funds from being spent on abortion in the United States. The policy bore immediate fruit: In 1985, the UN Population Fund repudiated the funding and advocacy of abortion as a means of family planning. Though the policy was reversed by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush restored...