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Just over a year ago in Stockholm, Russia's Foreign Minister delivered a shocking speech announcing a return to empire and cold war. No more Mr. Nice Guy for "Greater Russia," declared Andrei Kozyrev. "The space of the former Soviet Union . . . is essentially a post-imperial space, where Russia has...
Yeltsin still represents as moderate a government as Russia is going to produce. But that highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence...
Russia needs to be told that it does not have a veto over NATO membership. That only an imperial Russia would take offense at East Europeans finding shelter in NATO -- the Polish army, after all, is no threat to Moscow. And that if Russia insists on military pressure on its...
Two Harvard research teams and one team from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, England, reported in the most recent issue of Cell that they have isolated Sonic hedgehog, a gene they believe is responsible for shaping the embryonic development of limbs and the central nervous system.
However, the dispute did not end there. According to Tabin, Philip W. Ingham, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the head of the third research team, did not like the name because in England Sonic is slang for "groovy" and "naming something Sonic made him sick...