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...sources tell TIME, over the prosecutors' well-known demand to interview Lewinsky before any immunity deal is struck. Starr's team has spent months attempting to corroborate the stories she told Tripp; now they want to walk her through it all, judging her credibility. They may even want to hook her up to a polygraph machine--particularly if she asserts that Clinton and his friend Vernon Jordan never obstructed justice by asking her to lie about the relationship. Lewinsky's lawyers don't want to subject her to questioning unless she is first given immunity; Starr doesn't want...
...volunteer directors for the St. Thomas Irish Channel Consortium, which sponsors social programs in New Orleans. The group's board authorized purchase of directors' insurance, but no one followed through. Today the group is in court over a wrongful-termination claim, and board members may be personally on the hook for total damages of more than...
...course, now that we know the extent of HIV's nastiness we can get a lot closer to defeating it. The little hook that HIV uses to bind itself to cell receptor CCR5, for example, could be the virus' Achilles' heel. Blocking that hook may be the key to preventing HIV's ability to infect. "There's no question we're better off now than we were before," said Sodroski. "Before we were blind, now we are sighted." And that's a miracle in itself...
...time for Discovery to head home, and every nook and cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
...more cerebral entertainments such as Riven (the sequel to the best-selling CD-ROM game Myst) are the program equals of TV. Instead of sitting back and watching the Seinfeld characters interact with one another, you could hang out with them. Follow Kramer around until you get bored, then hook up with George...