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...work teaching law. Friends say the finely calibrated, constantly adjusted medication he took may have ceased to be effective. Others speculate that the attempt to contain his life with enough lucidity to work on a manuscript due in August placed extreme pressure on the perfectionistic Laudor, perhaps to the extent that he stopped taking his medicine. A publishing insider who saw Laudor's book proposal said it was written with "an almost mathematical use of language." It was an intensely emotional tribute to his father, who Laudor believed saved his life. On the day of the attack, Laudor's mother...
...controversy does open to fresh scrutiny a very difficult issue: To what extent do all U.S. sales of dual-use technology (items for legitimate civilian purposes that can also be turned to military use) help China modernize its military and improve its nuclear and missile arsenal? The question is hardly new, and scientists have been arguing back and forth for years whether China should be allowed to buy a whole array of items, from supercomputers and centrifuges to clean rooms and ground-positioning systems. "They don't just want our hardware," says Henry Sokolski, a former Bush proliferation specialist. "They...
...things considered though, Sinatra was relatively lucky. At least he was able to get a sense for the public's adoration for him while still alive. Many of his fellow celebrities aren't so lucky. Often, the celebrated pass to the hereafter without fully realizing the extent of their impact. Say what you will about Elton John's musical tribute to Diana, he was right when he sang that the Princess's countrymen will miss her "more than [she would] ever know...
...woodland for agriculture. And efforts to slow greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S., the biggest offender, continue to be stymied by a skeptical Congress. The Senate Appropriations Committee has just slashed $200 million from the Clinton Administration's proposed program to improve energy efficiency, citing doubts about "the existence, extent or effects of global climate change...
...course, now that we know the extent of HIV's nastiness we can get a lot closer to defeating it. The little hook that HIV uses to bind itself to cell receptor CCR5, for example, could be the virus' Achilles' heel. Blocking that hook may be the key to preventing HIV's ability to infect. "There's no question we're better off now than we were before," said Sodroski. "Before we were blind, now we are sighted." And that's a miracle in itself...