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VIRGINIA The general assembly rejected a bill last month to establish a research fund of public and private money named for actor Christopher Reeve...
...supporter of open market economic policies; as the country's new finance minister; in Seoul. Han replaced Lee Hun-jai, who resigned last week, and promised to follow a similar economic strategy as his predecessor. "I will do my best to assure markets [of consistency], revive the economy and establish systems for an advanced Korea," Han said. The government hopes to achieve 5% economic growth this year...
...year. Right now the hot product is a program called Mosaic, which gives the Internet what the Macintosh gave the personal computer: a navigation system that can be understood at a glance by anybody who can point and click a mouse. Hundreds of companies are using Mosaic to establish an easy-to-find presence on the Net. Last year there were a handful of these Mosaic "sites"; today there are more than 10,000, including such blatantly commercial ventures as the California Yellow Pages and the Internet Shopping Network...
...alumnus of Harvard Law School has donated $5 million to Harvard Medical School (HMS) to establish laboratories for the study of the biological mechanisms of aging...
Maskhadov had been elected President of Chechnya in a somewhat dubious but mostly fair 1997 election, after successfully leading the Chechen resistance movement from 1994-1996. After his electoral victory, however, he was unable to establish an effective state and the country disintegrated into a Somalia-like state of warlordism. In response to a Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya’s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate...