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Organizers said they are working in association with the Joint Distribution Committee, a private international relief organization which aids Eastern European causes and provides help to refugees in war-ravaged areas...
...information. And Johanson doesn't simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later, but it took...
...Concerning all minority diversity gay andlesbian issues, [Clark] is comfortable andsupportive and is willing to speak with us, as hedid about the [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff Gen.] Colin Powell protest," Sears says...
...assume the planes do finally fly. What exactly will this latest expression of faux muscularity achieve? "Air power alone" won't end the war, says the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It's bombing as therapy," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert who advised Clinton during the campaign. "Therapy for us, that is; proof that we've done something at last -- even if the Serbs simply move their heavy weapons and strike elsewhere, or hunker down till the dust clears." Ground troops could settle the conflict, but Clinton has ruled them out. He says...
...blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...