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South High was scheduled to reopen Monday, with students to be greeted by police wielding metal detectors. But that's not the worst of the fallout for students like Melissa Oliver. She had her hair done in ringlets and bought a glittery blue dress to wear to the homecoming dance--and that hasn't been rescheduled...
...pass both houses of Congress has Beijing doubting whether Mr. Clinton can deliver, even if they do manage to strike a deal. And, of course, that's a big "if." The two sides were reportedly close to agreement when Premier Zhu Rongji visited Washington in April, but the fallout from the Chinese nuclear espionage allegations prompted President Clinton to back out - a decision, according to the Times, he now deeply regrets...
Maybe it was fallout from the gray matter that conceived E=mc2 or the fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar...
...public debate over the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Then suddenly it was defeated in a vote that stunned not only Washington but just about every other capital. And now, just as suddenly, the Beltway is consumed by concepts like nuclear blasts, mutual assured destruction and radioactive fallout. Of course, not much of that talk revolves around the treaty. Those just happen to be the terms you need to describe the mood between Congress and the President, a climate so poisoned by the impeachment fight that as Bill Clinton moves toward his final year in office, he doesn't only...
...however Moscow chooses to manage the public relations fallout from the Grozny attack, it?s unlikely to change course in the face of Western hand-wringing. And with financial assistance to Russia already considerably diminished and military intervention unthinkable, there may be little the West can actually do to restrain Moscow. Russian troops are closing in on Grozny, and the missile attack fits their pattern of using air and artillery strikes to drive out civilians ahead of sending in ground troops. "Russia?s triumphal procession through Chechnya's sparsely populated northern plains has ended," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul...