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Gore has found the silver lining in Bill Clinton's scandal. Gephardt was the most threatening of half a dozen Democrats preparing to run against him, but the field has evaporated. Only Bill Bradley has announced; Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, another long shot, may join him. Other contenders--Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska--bowed out before getting in. Though each offers different reasons for not running, all fell victim to the same untamable force...
Perhaps that is why the U.S. Navy is increasingly shifting its warnings to the threat posed by some two dozen other nations--from China to Iran--operating more than 100 diesel-electric subs. Vessels of this type are quiet underwater, but their need to recharge their batteries forces them to surface every day or so, when they become sitting ducks. Nonetheless, Navy planners repeatedly cite the possibility that Iran's three Russian-made Kilo subs could bottle up the mouth of the Persian Gulf in a time of crisis, picking off thin-skinned oil tankers like marksmen at a state...
...Mexico during the 1960s and '70s to study the effects of space travel--like Ham, the first primate in orbit--she never made it off the ground. Instead she did her duty as a breeder, a friendly, easily handled chimp mom who gave birth at least a dozen times before her untimely death...
...Power and success didn't change Puffy," says one former associate. "He's always been a great businessman and a master manipulator." Combs rules Bad Boy with a firm, sometimes ruthless hand, controlling a dozen producers and rappers, supervising them in the studio, approving their lyrics and sometimes even dictating the color of their shoes. If he is tough, Combs says, it's because "there's never been an opportunity like this, even back in the Motown days. Very few people have the chance to be their own boss, to own what they create." Sometimes, to lead...
This high barrier to running does not seem to have hurt the GOP. A half-dozen Republicans have thrown their hats into the ring: Lamar Alexander, the former Tennessee governor who has been in contention almost since the moment he dropped out of the 1996 race; Steve Forbes, the billionaire who lost the GOP presidential nomination in 1996; former vice president Dan Quayle; New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith; head of the Family Research Council Gary Bauer; and Arizona Sen. John McCain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole, Ohio Rep. John Kasich and Broadcaster Alan Keyes are all weighing runs...