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When they break out the cognac aboard Mir, it's usually a sign that the cosmonauts have survived yet another harrowing test of their nerves. Today, they could be forgiven for taking a celebratory nip: In what might have been a rerun of last June's disastrous collision, the autopilot docking mechanism aboard a supply ship again failed -- but this time, Mir's commander managed to use the manual controls to safely dock the vessel. And inside the cargo vessel, for the cosmonaut who has everything, a new set of wrenches. Now they can fix that damn door...
...White House party, and eventually inviting her into a private study off the Oval Office for oral sex, and remarking that if she never told, no one would know, was enough to inspire first dizziness, then a regicidal rage. Through Clinton's peaceful, prosperous tenure he has been forgiven a world of winks and wiggly answers about youthful indiscretions and adult lapses of judgment. Last week even his apologists didn't know where to begin...
...excitement, you could have been forgiven for forgetting that Carlos had just been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two French secret service agents and a Lebanese fellow revolutionary. Or that the evidence the prosecution had managed to stack up against him was minimal, to say the least: Fingerprints on a whiskey bottle was about the closest they came to placing him at the crime scene...
KYOTO, Japan: Two contrary reports of the Clinton Administration's position on a global warming treaty surfaced Tuesday, so dramatically different you'd could be forgiven for thinking the U.S. is playing good cop-bad cop. The nice: a top Japanese newspaper claims the American delegation has sweetened its offer from reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2012 to reducing them 5 percent below 1990 levels. The nasty: Washington threatened to quit the talks if it could not reach an agreement the U.S. deemed "workable...
PARIS: Ever since the arrival of protease inhibitors, Americans could be forgiven for feeling that the fight against AIDS was all over but the shouting. New figures from the United Nations Wednesday ought to wipe away such complacency, however: It turns out that we've underestimated the number of AIDS cases by a third. Indeed, as many as 1 in every 100 sexually active adults has the HIV virus...