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...magnetar is a star that has run out of fuel and collapsed to form a neutron star--a ball of matter just a dozen miles across, so dense that a teaspoonful weighs tens of millions of tons. In rare instances, a neutron star can generate a magnetic field strong enough to shatter the star's metallic surface, sending high-energy X rays and gamma rays blasting into space...
...seven people--includingWuchinich--were escorted out of Oakwood inhandcuffs by a dozen police officers and wereloaded into two police vehicles...
...Orson Welles knew, border towns are spiced with a touch of evil. They are nebulous nether regions where allegiances are shady and the rules change within the space of a dozen yards. Tex-Mex, the cuisine born of that uneasy schizophrenia, retains some of the intrigue of its homeland. Few innocent consumers should be bamboozled into believing, for example, that the stale tortilla coated with brown paste and overflowing with sour cream and jack cheese might with pride be called a burrito, or that the proper recipe for guacamole calls for mayonnaise. Just as Hank Quinlan--the crooked cop Welles...
...regardless of the official ban, at least a dozen publishing houses are cranking out translated copies, which are selling like scallion buns on the street. Chinese authorities may find it hard to suppress that entrepreneurial spirit, but the ban could be just the smoking gun Dan Burton needs to prove collusion between Beijing and the Clinton White House...
...appears--the pleas of her husband's allies and advisers for her to bestow her forgiveness ostentatiously in a nationally televised interview. Instead she is making the case for her husband's survival in private. Two weeks ago, she served coffee and danish and reassurance to about two dozen adoring women lawmakers at the White House. She also lobbied Capitol Hill by phone to shore up Democratic support for the President, helping quiet the grousing of at least one of his more outspoken critics, Virginia Congressman James Moran. There is talk that she may even address the House Democratic Caucus...