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...attack on Tokyo subways, immediately denied any involvement. Thousands of commuters poured out of the station, jamming sidewalks and streets, while sirens wailed and about 10 police helicopters circled overhead. Police, firefighters and chemical weapons experts, some wearing gas masks, were checking the station for the source of a foul chemical odor. (A college student told the Associated Press she saw firefighters clad removing 20 or 30 small cardboard boxes from the station.) Officials said sarin, the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack, was not suspected because the victims' symptoms were different. People affected by the fumes today complained...
That last word rings particularly foul. Jews are not inherently a race; they are adherents to a common religion. Much of Nazi propaganda against Jews--some of which has resurfaced now in European and American anti-Semitic Publications--painted Jews as an inferior race, when what truly distinguishes them is religion. Such propaganda becomes especially irrational when one asks how an 'inferior race' can be behind massive conspiracies to control major industries such as entertainment and banking...
...gender. Wives noticed they were getting better gifts because during port calls their husbands had female shipmates to advise them on shopping. "Some of the guys have an easier time talking to females than males about family problems," said Airman Heather Weers. Feeling competition, the men worked harder. And foul language was toned down. "I think we've become a little more civilized," said the skipper, Captain Alan Mark Gemmill...
Lehman's case is just one of a spate of medical foul-ups that have made headlines in recent weeks. In two Florida incidents, a doctor amputated the wrong foot of a diabetic man, and a hospital worker mistakenly turned off a stroke victim's breathing machine. In Michigan a surgeon doing a mastectomy removed a woman's healthy breast instead of the diseased one. Are these isolated, if horrifying, events? Or could they be harbingers of a deadly trend? Though no statistical evidence shows that malpractice is on the rise, state licensing boards have stepped up their investigations...
...Okhotsk. Earlier in the day, a warplane misfired six rockets in southern Russia, hitting a house, but causing no casualties. On March 10, an attack jet accidentally fired a missile that narrowly missed a nuclear power plant south of Moscow. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says many more foul-ups go unreported because Russian defense and space programs still operate under the old Soviet veil of secrecy. "The Russian armed forces are undermanned, under-maintained, under-funded, and have an extremely low morale," says Nelan. "There are just accidents waiting to happen...