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...recent sign of an arms buildup, the likes of which has not been seen since Saddam Hussein stocked his arsenal in the days before the Gulf War. In recent months Teheran has been negotiating contracts with Russia, Ukraine and China for everything from tanks to missiles and high- performance jet fighters. Iranian dissidents and Western analysts are also concerned about help the Iranians may be getting from Chinese technicians in efforts to develop nuclear weapons. And like prewar Iraq, Iran is funding its weapons program with $20 billion in oil sales facilitated by Western companies...
...scene was repeated from Texas to Ohio and Maryland as the freak storms, caused by a southerly dip in the jet stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister...
...heading to work at Little Rock's leading law firm, and after a year of nonstop, around-the-clock campaigning, she now has time for a second cup of coffee. Of course, her new position has its privileges: she gets to live in the country's most famous house, jet on Air Force One to visit heads of state and throw parties with the most impressive guest lists in the world. Someone else sees to the details...
...third as far from the sun as Earth, and its daytime temperatures can reach 430 degreesC (800 degreesF). The last thing scientists expected to find there was ice. But that is just what a new radar study of Mercury, reported in Science, has detected. Planetary scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and at Caltech aimed powerful radar beams at both of the planet's poles; the return signals bore the telltale signs of having bounced off a frozen surface. Like Earth and Mars, Mercury appears to have polar ice caps...
...WYNETTE'S VOICE sounds like a heartbreak that's become a habit. For 25 years, Wynette has been one of country music's best habits. The 67-song CD set Tears of Fire offers a lot of fine down-home hits (Stand By Your Man, We're Not the Jet Set) and a little social history, so often does Wynette sing about the soul-scarred Southern woman. Some of her best songs (I Don't Wanna Play House, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Dear Daughters) are bedtime stories for a child from a ravaged home; they translate complex...