Word: de
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...been only four months since she was sworn in, but already American diplomacy is feeling the Albright touch. Her interpreters spend more time sitting silently; during a Paris visit, she conducted her meeting with Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in French, one of five languages she speaks. Her speechwriters, chained for four years by Warren Christopher's stilted delivery, are now free to insert colorful one-liners into the text of public statements. Harried bodyguards make her wear a bulletproof vest at times. Albright's public diplomacy in risky spots overseas often makes them nervous...
Still, a little de-reg can go a long way, as it has for Peter Johnson, president and CEO of Agouron Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, Calif. Earlier this year the FDA, using a streamlined process specifically developed for life-threatening diseases like AIDS, gave a green light to Viracept, the firm's new anti-HIV drug...
...century's days are dwindling, and the only question is how to count them. (The question for entrepreneurs is how to make money from counting them.) The fin-de-siecle countdown is already ticking away, and cropping up around the world are timepieces great and small, digital and analog, useful and utterly useless. Warning: Some timepieces do not work after the first stroke...
...bird or bug is a little like finding a new use for duct tape--nice but not earthshaking. Finding a new species of human ancestor, on the other hand, is always a big deal. That's why Spanish scientists spent three years studying fossils they discovered at Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. They wanted to be sure of what they...
...they're sure. In the current issue of Science, Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, of Madrid's Center for Scientific Investigation, and his colleagues maintain that their fossils belong to a new, possibly cannibalistic species of early man that roamed Europe nearly 800,000 years ago. Called Homo antecessor (from a Latin word meaning "explorer"), this creature may be the last common ancestor shared by modern humans and Neanderthals...