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Scientists used to think that the evolution of phyla took place over a period of 75 million years, and even that seemed impossibly short. Then two years ago, a group of researchers led by Grotzinger, Samuel Bowring from M.I.T. and Harvard's Knoll took this long-standing problem and escalated...
Milosevic: "He's tough to read. Being bright and tricky, he's dangerous. He wants an end to the immediate fighting. He wants the sanctions lifted. Our great fear is that after a so-called decent interval he'll try to absorb all of Bosnia. He may try for an...
The precision can be too clinical, as in the depiction of a character from The Vane Sisters: "The interval between her thick black eyebrows was always shiny, and shiny too were the fleshy volutes of her nostrils." But elsewhere there is divinity in the details: "The roofs blaze like oblique...
Beyond that, Milosevic is reportedly willing to accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list...
In Saigon the CIA had already begun "black" (secret) flights, spiriting out of the country Vietnamese collaborators who could expect only prison or death after a communist victory, and the U.S. embassy had begun burning its files. (Not fast enough: long lists containing the names of Vietnamese and specifying what...