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What Washington does claim is that American intelligence has taken down more than two dozen of bin Laden's cells in the past two years. In the summer of 1998, the U.S. got wind of a serious plot against the U.S. embassy in Tirana, Albania, evacuated the facility and worked with Albanian authorities to corral the suspects. Last fall in Germany, local authorities arrested a man thought to be bin Laden's head of procurement in Europe, allegedly on the prowl for weapons of mass destruction. And earlier this month, acting on a tip, Jordan rounded up 13 terrorists with...
This year many of my closest personal friends, people who would ordinarily have no trouble tossing off a dozen or so resolutions, are having great difficulty. Why? Obviously it's the onerous burden of Y2K. As we all sit on the precipice of the new millennium, our legs dangling in the glorious future, the pledges that seemed sufficient in previous years--"I need to get on the StairMaster more" or "I'll be more patient with my kids"--just don't seem to pack enough vision and gravitas. But we must all fight this false sense of obligation to make...
COST OF LIVING It costs more today to make a hamburger, less to make an omelet Inflation 1900 adjusted 1999 Sugar (1 lb.) $.04 $.78 $1.49 Eggs (1 dozen) $.14 $2.75 $1.79 Butter (1 lb.) $.24 $4.70 $4.49 Beef (1 lb.) $.07 $1.37 $2.99 Coffee (1 lb.) on $.07 $1.37 $1.35 the commodity exchange Kodak camera* $5 $98 $120 Lionel $6 $117 $150 electric train Train ticket** $13 $254 $43 First-class stamp...
Jefferson was a creature of the 18th century; he was the man of the 18th century. A dozen powerful strands of the Enlightenment converged in him: a certain sky-blue clarity, an aggressive awareness of the world, a fascination with science, a mechanical vision of the universe (much thanks to Isaac Newton) and an obsession with mathematical precision. The writer Garry Wills has suggested that Jefferson believed human life could be geared to the precision and simplicity of heaven's machinery. Many of the contradictions in his character arose from the discrepancies between such intellectual machinery and the passionate, organic...
...that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at least a dozen of the 535 universities currently authorized to use the whole spectrum of illegal substances in controlled laboratory tests. Federal officials say the government, which provides $250 million for universities to buy the drugs, doesn't do much to find out what's happening inside the research facilities. Whether this lapse...