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Their presence has sparked a pitched battle between bird lovers and sleep lovers. Hoping to soothe ruffled feathers on all sides, the city council is willing to try behavior modification. Later this month, Iowa peafowl farmer Dennis Fett, who will collect $200 a day and expenses for his advice, will conduct seminars for frazzled residents on how they can cope with their troublesome flock. Then he will try to draw the birds, Pied Piper-style, to open parts of the city...
Generations of American G.I.s have worn dog tags as a grim reminder that the U.S. military might someday need to identify their remains. But the Pentagon has now authorized a superior DNA-identification system, for which it will collect blood and saliva samples from all service personnel. The problem is that dog tags can be lost, switched or counterfeited, and fingerprints and dental records are not always reliable. Several casualties of Desert Storm, for example, went unidentified for weeks because of such problems. Using DNA samples taken from family members, though, Army experts were recently able to identify the remains...
...Brescia, the league polled 24.4% to edge out the Christian Democrats for No. 1. In the next general elections, which could come as early as this spring, the league plans to run candidates for $ Parliament throughout Italy; some polls indicate that the league and like- minded groups could collect 21% of the vote...
...evidence remains strong that bones are being warehoused in Vietnam. Moreover, the central government's efforts to collect remains held by its citizens have been halfhearted at best. A week after our trip to Suoi Pai, we traveled to Ho Chi Minh City and put out the word that we were interested in MIA bones. Leads flooded in. A Vietnamese military officer passed along photocopies of the personal effects of three servicemen that supposedly came from graves dug up by impoverished soldiers in Kontum province...
...confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages in harassment cases. Employers are making their rules more explicit, their reporting procedures more reliable. If men and women are temporarily more cautious and self-conscious about what they may say and do, that may not be too high a price to pay for a new understanding...