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...place to be in Lima last Tuesday night was the elaborate residential compound of Japan's veteran ambassador to Peru, Morihisa Aoki. In recent years Aoki's receptions have enjoyed an enviable acclaim, thanks to the munificence of his banquet table and glitter of his guest lists. And last week's party commemorating the birthday of Emperor Akihito (he turned 63 this year) was no exception. More than 1,000 invitations were sent out, and by 8 p.m. anyone interested in glimpsing a real-life Who's Who in Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall...
Mary left active fieldwork in 1983 and retired to a five-acre compound near Nairobi with her books and her Dalmatians. "Actually, given a chance, I'd rather be in a tent than in a house," she told a reporter this summer. In August the unflappable, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking "grande dame of archaeology," as Virginia Morell called Leakey in her recent book Ancestral Passions, got one last glimpse of her beloved footprints just before they were buried under layers of protective fabric, earth and boulders to preserve them for future generations...
NOVIYE ATAGI, Chechnya: The Red Cross is evacuating its personnel and suspending operations in Chechnya after six of its delegates were shot as they slept in the Noviye Atagi Red Cross hospital compound early Tuesday morning. Five doctors and a maintenance worker died while another was seriously wounded in the execution-style shooting, the worst single attack on Red Cross workers in its 133-year history. "The people who did it knew exactly what they were doing." said Red Cross representative Kim Gordon-Bates. "Nothing was stolen." Although Russian Interior Ministry troops have begun an investigation, there is no guarantee...
...past, efforts to discover drugs for use in the brain have been governed by the assumption that any such chemical compound needed to contain a nitrogen atom. As a result, all current drugs which target the brain have nitrogen atoms...
...tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; its devastating effect on the morale of the FBI continues to haunt the agency...