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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satisfaction and can-do spirit coming from NATO headquarters and the Clinton Administration, there are signs that even Phase One did not go as well as the planners had hoped. The main objective in the opening round was to destroy as many as possible of Serbia's 1,000 surface-to-air missiles and almost 2,000 antiaircraft guns, making the air safer for the planes that will later go sniffing after tanks and artillery. Milosevic's air-defense system is, as NATO commanders keep insisting, "state of the art." But he and his lieutenants have not been cooperating with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Dayton, Ohio, where he signed a peace accord. An Air Force study concluded that the key lessons were to hit hard and use precision weapons. "Precision weapons gave NATO airmen the ability to execute a major air campaign that was quick, potent and unlikely to kill people or destroy property to an extent that would cause world opinion to rise against the operation," the study concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: The Risks Of Air Power | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Most of the formulations, for example, fail to get the body to churn out enough of the T cells that are needed to target and destroy HIV-infected cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...more about how HIV co-opts the human body to survive, they are realizing that drugs alone may not be enough. To contain the virus effectively, it may take a balance between drug therapy that keeps HIV levels low and a bolstered immune system that can then target and destroy the remaining virus. Until scientists find a vaccine, however, they may control but never cure the century's final scourge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...thought that with such quality materialsthe library would not burn--and administrators atthe time did not want to put a sprinkler systemthat in the event of a fire would destroy thebooks with water...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Needed Renovations Planned For Widener | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

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