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...calls, King Hussein has had it with the tough-talking Israeli, and Netanyahu's idea of diplomacy is taking shots at both of his neighbors on a state visit to Moscow. Netanyahu's problem is that he's walking the plank, trying to move forward without alienating eith er his hard right constituency or the swing voters who want progress, but fear conceding too much, reports senior correspondent Johanna McGeary. "Netanyahu pulls out of Hebron, and then he balances that by announcing the construction of settlement s in east Jerusalem. Arafat gets burned every time Netanyahu lurches to the right...
...devised a system of communi cation with his left eyelid based on the frequency of letters used in French words. After a short time, Bauby could blink his way through any conversation. He set up the Locked-In Syndrome Association, an organization that tries to help those who suff er from the condition and their families. But the ultimate challenge lay in remaining active as a writer and editor. Working in three-hour daily sessions, he blinked more than 200,000 times, according to Paris Match, to create "Le scaphande et l e papillion," an account of the flight...
...students get a sense for what medicine is other than from ER," Michelson says...
...said a long-standing contract obligated the network to televise the Miss USA pageant that evening. The White House mulled it over and elected to move the speech to Feb. 4. "Oh, Mr. McCurry! Were you all concerned that Clinton would lose viewers, or did the President, um, er, want to watch the pageant himself...
Perhaps my whining and clutching at Kinsley's ankles that night paid off. Late last week Kinsley informed his readers he had decided to keep Slate free--for the "indefinite" future. "There are too many people who are too damned cheap...er...too engaged by the novelty of the medium to feel the need to pay extra," Kinsley wrote. "Pornographic and financial sites are a possible exception." Financial is out of the question. But I'll take off my shirt if he will...