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...Dark Matter Discovered For nearly a decade, scientists had been searching for dark matter -- the mysterious stuff whose gravity seemed to hold the universe together but which nobody had ever seen. This year they found it -- or at least some of it -- in the form of Jupiter-like clumps of matter known as massive compact halo objects, or MACHOS...
...Palestine Liberation Organization alive -- and they take it seriously. Male guests are patted down, their pockets emptied, wallets searched. Women are scanned with ultrasensitive metal detectors, their purses % ransacked. The bodyguards, members of Arafat's elite Force 17, open the matchboxes and start striking the matches in the dark courtyard to be sure they do not contain detonating devices. Over the years Arafat has probably had more people trying to kill him than any other public figure in the world. Closest to succeeding were the Israelis, who might have buried him under the rubble in the Tunis bombing raid that...
...Christianity and Islam. We believe that we have to secure free access for the believers of the other religions. We believe the administration of the holy shrines, not the holy city, should be by them. ARAFAT: For centuries we lived together with Jews. When Europe was in the dark ages, we lived together. We called them our cousins. It is a part of our tradition. RABIN: The historic breakthrough was not now. It was when President Sadat, the leader of the largest Arab country, came to Jerusalem and succeeded in bringing down all the walls of suspicion, hatred, prejudices...
...Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a ''cozy white warm-up outfit,'' as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise. I always dress nice...
...though his work—which includes paintings, prints, and photographic books—defies categorization. Most notably, Ruscha has sought to explore the place of language in visual art in paintings like “Standard Station,” perhaps his most famous, and another in which dark clouds loom behind the words “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICATION...