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...Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure of the gun's influential supporters...
...example, penicillin appeared to be a magic bullet against staphylococcal infections. The problem was, it failed to kill every single bug, and those that survived the onslaught slowly began to multiply. The result: by the 1950s most staph infections had become highly resistant to penicillin. The same fate met penicillin's successors, erythromycin and methicillin; now it appears to be vancomycin's turn...
...Sunday, President Ricardo Lagos released information provided by the military on the fate of some 200 people who disappeared during the dictatorship. Many of them had been tortured and then thrown out of airplanes over the ocean. How have those revelations impacted on the discussion over Pinochet's fate...
Northeastern's Jeff Francis beat sophomore John Meeker in both the 60- and 200-meter races. A first place finish by the Huskies in the 400-meters put Harvard's fate in jeopardy...
...Just as Prime Minister Ehud Barak accepted the proposals and then immediately added that he would not recognize Palestinian sovereignty over any part of the Temple Mount, so must Chairman Arafat?s acceptance be measured against the factors weighing overwhelmingly against him making any compromises on Jerusalem or the fate of the refugees. Essentially both men said a muffled yes because neither could afford an outright rejection the American plan, at the same time as neither could afford the domestic political consequences of embracing it. In other words, that qualified "yes" from both sides appears to be little more than...