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SARAJEVO: Two Portuguese and one Italian NATO soldier were killed Wednesday night when an explosion rocked the compound where they were housed. Seven other allied soldiers were injured. Though early reports suggested that a terrorist attack or a land mine may have caused the explosion, NATO officials later revealed that one of the Portuguese soldiers had brought the grenade-type bomb to the barracks as a souvenir...
Wrong. As soon as the scientists added a fourth fatty acid, the digestibility and absorbability of the compound decreased. Five fatty acids decreased it further still. And six fatty acids, attached to a molecule of sorbitol, a sweetish alcohol used in food products, made the compound completely indigestible...
...Admiral Leighton Smith went to Pale, the heart of Bosnian Serb territory, on Tuesday to discuss details of the transition to peace. As a reminder of how close to war they still are, Smith and his party, including a dozen bodyguards, traveled in armored vehicles and entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear...
McVeigh has claimed he visited the Branch Davidian compound near Waco during the federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind...
...LEAN PROTEIN Researchers, knowing that a defective gene causes mice to grow fat, purified the protein produced by the normal gene, injected it into plump mice and turned them into trim little rodents. Now scientists want to know if that compound, called leptin, will work on people...