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When Saddam's army rolled north, CIA officials claim, they were able to extract everyone with whom the agency had a close association, meaning about two dozen security guards and their families, plus several paid informants. Even so, the CIA is viewed as having abandoned several hundred congress members. As for their mission, it no longer exists. "Our entire covert action program has gone to hell," says a U.S. official...
...about Dole's age and Clinton's libido, Comedy Central has generally maintained a greater respect for its viewers' political intelligence. Rather than barrage us with easy laugh getters, like images of earnest delegates showing off Dole hand puppets, CC's commentators worked hard at the convention, managing to extract humor from sources as unlikely as Congressman John Kasich, who talked to correspondent Al Franken about his fondness for Alice Cooper...
...finger- and toenails. But as soon as Irina was on the mend, she insisted that Vitali return to pursuing his dream. In this year's Games, his team finished out of the money and he had to settle for bronze in the all-around, but never mind. To extract the last bit of drama from the Scherbos, NBC had Irina and their daughter transported back to the crash scene for a four-Kleenex finale...
...ingredient is a naturally occurring chemical found in pine trees--something else Finland has a lot of. Called sitostanol, the compound makes it harder for the body to absorb cholesterol. One of Raisio's scientists figured out how to extract sitostanol and mix it with conventional margarine. Then doctors from Helsinki tested the blend for a year on 153 subjects and reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that the cholesterol counts of people who used sitostanol-laced margarine daily dropped from 235 mg/dL to 210 mg/dL...
...people to poverty. "Clinton would not promise to sign the bill if this was not an election year," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "The White House estimates that if he had vetoed this bill, he would have lost 5 points in the polls. He held out long enough to extract some concessions from the Republicans, but if Clinton had vetoed the bill, it would have been contrary to everything he has been doing over the last year to establish himself as a sensible moderate. Besides, Clinton's promises to reform welfare -->