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...cannot help but ask these questions...The issue is, does this question bear fruit," she says. "We're always coming from the present to the past. There is no prima facia answer." For her, there are always more questions...
...fragility of the new order was obvious as the week progressed, and the recognition talks bore no immediate fruit. Both sides share an urgent desire to reach such an agreement, yet translating that into precise language is proving frustratingly difficult. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the deal to give self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho would be implemented even without the mutual-recognition pact, but formal, reciprocal acknowledgment of legitimacy is crucial to finding a broad, permanent settlement...
Jokes about the inefficiencies and convolutions of government bureaucracy are as American as, well, a crust-enclosed dessert filled with the fruit of deciduous Eurasian plants known as apple trees. The first two are gags that were probably old when Vice President Al Gore's father Albert Sr. was first elected to the Senate in 1952. Their antiquity indicates how deeply entrenched are the habits of bureaucratic bumbling, and the immense force of inertia that sustains them. The paperwork story was presented as fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice...
...Oslo Channel: How the seeds of peace bore fruit...
Before being released to growers, imported apple and pear trees are kept in federal quarantine centers for up to five years. Inspectors, who have to certify that the plants are free of viruslike microorganisms known as viroids, must wait until the trees bear fruit and check the apples and pears for viroid scarring and spotting. Agriculture Department scientists announced that they have developed a test that takes only two months: botanists graft a branch of the imported tree to a healthy plant, let it grow, then examine sap from a new twig or leaf for viroids...