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...uranium ordnance. Depleted uranium is not radioactive, and speculation over its potential health effects focus on its toxicity as a heavy metal. It is precisely its weight - 1.7 times that of lead - that allows depleted-uranium shells to pass through all sorts of armored surfaces that might stop steel, brass or copper, and makes it an attractive tank-busting weapon. Depleted-uranium ordnance was originally used on A-10 tank-busting bombers, but during the Kosovo campaign was used in an even wider range of weapons...
...Democrats call it a fix. "The only thing missing is a smoke-filled room," fumed Rep. Ken Gottlieb. "The special session is about accomplishing one goal and one goal only - to ensure that George W. Bush is the next president of the United States. This is brass knuckles partisan politics at its very worst." (To which Republican Rep. Carlos Lacasa replied: "Partisan politics is democracy in action. Rather than hiding from my partisanship, I will use it like a beacon to guide me in this vote...
...Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year guy who had never thrown a pass in the NFL. Brass does not do Green justice...
Like all homes, it has its lost treasures. In 1792 there was a grand dinner and 16 toasts by Freemasons from Georgetown after they laid the White House cornerstone over a brass marker. The location of stone and plate was quickly forgotten. No one is certain where it is today, despite high technology and old-fashioned dowsing rods. Truman did not find it during his renovation. And no modern President wants to cut into the sacred walls. That cornerstone, wherever it is, will lie undisturbed, one hopes, for at least another two centuries...
...wild card, as ever, is Montesinos. Nobody knows quite where the shadowy intelligence chief is since his ostensible return to Peru. Despite being on the run, Montesinos is believed to command significant loyalty in the military brass, having appointed many of its leading figures to their positions. That's if he's still alive - opposition leader Alejandro Toledo, speaking in Spain at the weekend, speculated that the former intelligence chief, who's been implicated in political bribery and also in a gun-running scandal, may actually have been killed. But nobody's betting on that...