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...Security Council for ignoring Somalia while it obsessed about Yugoslavia. Though he boasts about the reforms he initiated, he moved too little and too late to satisfy U.S. demands for sharp staff reductions and a zero-growth budget. His detractors say Boutros-Ghali was also burdened with a short fuse, large ego and thin skin...
...clues are tantalizing. In some research centers, investigators are studying an area at the tip of chromosomes that appears to shorten, fuselike, as we grow older. Extinguish the chemical fire that consumes the fuse, and you might be able to bring aging to a halt. Elsewhere, scientists are studying how the waste produced when a cell consumes food can contaminate its innards, a process that can lead to the body-wide breakdowns we associate with aging. Clean up the cells, and you should be able to buck up the entire organism. Still elsewhere, geneticists are beginning to map the very...
Perhaps even more appalling than the scene on the field were Alomar's unconscionable comments after the game. Speaking to reporters after the incident, Alomar blamed Hirshbeck's short fuse on his tragic family situation...
...your book, you wrote that "Nepal needs a vision," and went on to describe a new society that would fuse Western influences and Hindu traditions. Do you think such an ideal is possible and achievable...
...news by suggesting long ago that life on Mars takes the form of a supercilious ass who wants to disintegrate Earth with his "Iludium pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator" because Earth obstructs his view of Venus. Earthkind's hero, Bugs Bunny, snuffs out Marvin the Martian's modulator fuse and saves the world, a feat that, theologians agree, must rank slightly ahead of Daffy Duck's space exploration in quest of "Aludium Phosdex, the shaving-cream atom...