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...While the government and military leadership in Jakarta have vowed to cooperate with the peacekeeping mission, their previous promise to rein in the militia meant very little on the ground. "There are different power centers competing for control over Indonesia, and all decisions have to be negotiated among them," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Jakarta has effectively admitted that it's lost control of at least some of its own forces in East Timor. The New York Times reports that General Prabowo Subianto, a close ally of the former dictator Suharto and a rival to current military leader General...
...they move over and feed of off warm water, and when they reach speeds of 74 mph or more, the storms are reclassified as hurricanes. Unfortunately for residents of the eastern U.S., the Caribbean and Central America, late-summer conditions in the central Atlantic offer a perfect breeding ground for the destructive storms. In fact, the U.S. hurricane season, which extends from June to November, will often see nine to 10 tropical storms, five of which become hurricanes, while two of those will be classified as intense (category 3, 4 or 5, with winds over 110 mph) hurricanes...
While Americans have flocked to the flicks in record numbers this summer, movie theaters are breaking ground at an even greater pace. Over the past five years the number of screens in the U.S. has soared 40%, to almost 35,000, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. And since every town with an economic-development plan sees the movies as some kind of retail miracle, the number may reach 40,000 before the building spree ends. Yet no matter how many geeks go to see a Star Wars film 17 times, it's doubtful they can fill...
...closer look at the figures indicates that it is much too early to even think about uncorking the champagne. While the number of deaths declined 42% from 1996 to 1997, they were off only 20% from 1997 to 1998. In short, the decline is slowing. We're actually losing ground...
...recent fossil discoveries that supposedly document human evolution are mere opinions. Evolution has never been proved. It is a theory that is on shaky ground. ANDREW DIPROSE Rome...