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...Israeli diplomats leak a working draft of an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty last week? The U.S. believes so and is furious. The secret document, prepared by U.S. mediators during the last round of talks, maps out points of agreement and disagreement between the two sides on a proposed land-for-peace deal...
COASTER CLOTS Some thrill. Japanese researchers report that at least four people have developed blood clots on the brain after riding giant, high-speed roller coasters. The clots, called subdural hematomas, occur when vessels near the surface of the brain rupture and leak. Clots from coasters are still extremely rare, but as a safeguard, the researchers suggest no more than two rides in a row. If you develop a headache, vomiting or confusion, get to a doctor fast...
...same thought in mind while doing their thing: "this is way too much fun, I can't believe they're actually paying me to do it!" Singer Gene seemed to be having an equally good time. When the rest of the band stepped off stage "to take a leak," leaving him to play a lighter-waving ballad, he barely managed to keep a straight face through the second verse. Though the band's musical mix of grungy alt-rock and bouncy hoe-down country would have made for a decent concert by itself, it was their presence and stage antics...
...guys who lived downstairs from her, Wirth recounted, often had kegs in their room. Once, she says, when one of the kegs sprung a leak, beer dripped through the floor and into the administrative offices only floor above the office of then-president Derek...
...emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot to the point that he or she would be unable to react. Others insist that the warning systems would have alerted the pilot to a slow leak, making an explosive depressurization a more likely scenario. "All we can say for certain right now," says Hannifin, "is that this incident may well have been unique in aviation history...