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...Airlines plane, the New York Times reported Tuesday. But Pakistan's military ruler, General Parvez Musharraf, has rebuffed a U.S. request to ban the Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, the organization allegedly responsible for the attack. Nonetheless, by publicly discussing Pakistan's involvement in terrorism, the U.S. is turning up the heat...
...poured down biblically for weeks and the Mississippi overflowed to become a vast, shallow brown ocean and submerged the Midwest's farms like an agricultural Atlantis. The entire country steamed like Bangkok; power systems died trying to satisfy the air conditioners' demands; old people keeled over in the doomy heat...
...fires. The likelihood of these accidents is exacerbated, critics attest, by the fast-burning paper currently used in cigarettes. According to the New York Times, Philip Morris plans to announce Tuesday that it has developed a "safer" cigarette paper, which the company claims burns more slowly and generates less heat. The technology - which has reportedly been available since the 1980s - will be test-marketed in the company's Merit brand, and if it's successful (presumably if fewer deadly fires are inadvertently started and the paper doesn't cut down on the smooth taste of toxic chemicals), it will...
...rock's size. "An asteroid 300 yards across would cause immense damage in a large city. The speed at which these things travel means that if one came to a sudden stop, as in a collision, the energy of the speed would be converted into almost inconceivable amounts of heat...
...clearly taking no chances with Al Gore's election year looming. Indeed, Clinton appears to be more willing to sacrifice some Panamanian goodwill by snubbing the ceremony than to provide visuals for a Buchanan attack ad by showing up. Hey, Jimmy Carter made this deal, let him take the heat...