Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secessionist Serbs in Bosnia raised the stakes in their tense standoff with U.N. and NATO forces, downing a U.S. F-16 on routine patrol; Bosnian Serb forces said the jet's lone pilot survived and was in their custody, an assertion the U.S. was unable to confirm. At the same time, the Bosnian Serbs -- under pressure from their erstwhile patron, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic -- released 121 of the more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers they had been holding hostage. U.S. envoy Robert Frasure met with Milosevic to discuss possibly suspending economic sanctions against Serbia in return for the release...
...strategy like the one suggested here doesn't work, at least the Bosnian Muslims will have been given what they want: the chance to fight on a leveled killing field. If a serious strategy isn't tried, then as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke says, history will confirm the verdict so far: "The failure to respond properly in this tragedy is the greatest collective failure of the West since the 1930s...
...also allows people to add their names to a list if they are coming to Cambridge for the reunion so the Alumni Association can contact them to confirm details...
While no one can confirm what caused the catastrophe, many have pointed to stress brought on by studies. As we encouraged the University to make its services for dealing with depression more accessible earlier in the year, we now hope that the University's facilities for stress counseling will reach out more to students...
Much more important than the commercial fate of Ambergene is the awesome scientific significance of what Cano may have done. If other laboratories confirm that microbes can survive over tens of millions of years, then humanity may gain new respect for the uncounted hordes of invisible organisms that dominate the world through the eons, even as bigger, supposedly smarter creatures come...