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...call to lift the 19- year-long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that the freeze-out continue until they are given a full account of what happened to their loved ones...
Washington -- The Defense Department refuses to tell Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary exactly how much plutonium is used in its weapons around the world. O'Leary has been on a campaign to make public the government's uses and abuses of radiation and radioactive material over the years. However, Pentagon officials maintain that giving her information about the exact amount of plutonium used in the military's stockpile of strategic and tactical warheads would compromise security...
...exact move-in date depends upon the progress of the repairs...
Snow here also occasions questions of science. Namely, what is the exact composition of that unique substance which some have dubbed "Cambridge Slurpy?" I refer to the dark brown ooze with icy chunks which accumulates where, in most of the Industrialized World, the storm drains would...
That's why the Human Genome Project is so important. The goal, says Collins, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research, is to find by the year 2005 not just the location of 100,000 or so genes, but the exact sequence of their constituent chemical parts. If the human genome is an encyclopedia divided into 23 "chapters" (chromosome pairs), each gene "sentence" is composed of three-letter "words," which are in turn spelled by four molecular "letters" called nucleotides -- adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). By scanning a data base containing the complete sequence...