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...part of this outing at the darkest moment of the 36-day postelection battle with Al Gore is almost a country-boy ruse. Of course he wants us to see him here. This ranch, which he bought just a year ago, is a rich Texas symbol of achievement--what kids from the Midland dream of having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows...
Have you ever wondered who knows your deepest, darkest medical secrets? Like the time you tripped on your shoelace and had to get 18 stitches in your head, or your bout with psychosomatic laryngitis during your 20s? Well, here's some bad news: Pretty much anyone with a little initiative and even a vague understanding of the Internet can uncover your entire medical history with surprisingly little effort. And here's the good news: All that is about to change...
...President Clinton ordered the review in order to shed greater light on the U.S. role in Chilean democracy's darkest period, and the picture that emerges is far from pretty. But while there are unlikely to be any political recriminations in the U.S. at this point - notwithstanding the fact that former president George Bush was CIA director for some of the years under consideration - the latest documents may be bad news for General Pinochet. Chile's high court has stripped away the immunity he awarded himself as the price for relinquishing power, and only last week courts ordered...
...with night skies that rank among the clearest and darkest on Earth, Mauna Kea offers an unsurpassed view of the heavens--and that's why, despite the harsh conditions, astronomers can't wait to visit. Stargazers come here from around the world to answer some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos: When in the depths of time did galaxies first flare into existence, and what made it happen? What is the elusive dark matter whose mass dominates the universe? How many stars have planets--and do those alien worlds harbor intelligent life...
...this freedom to break the silence, even of death, even when--in the depths of our darkest loneliness--we have no clear idea of why we reach out to one another with these frail, perishable chains of words. In the black chamber of the submarine, Kolesnikov noted, "I am writing blindly." Like everyone else...