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Saddam used the crisis with surprising skill to leap out of his isolation in the Arab world. Egypt and Qatar sent senior envoys to Baghdad to plead for peace, and Saddam boosted his standing with his gulf neighbors by seeming to choose diplomacy over adventurism. By letting in hordes of international journalists, he made sure they would show and tell the story of the Iraqi people suffering under U.N. sanctions...
...before you grab your prospecting pans and kettles, a word of caution: All we've actually detected is hydrogen atoms. "The presence of water is a logical conclusion, but it is a leap of faith," says Alan Binder, a lead scientist on NASA's Prospector team. "We will have to sample it before we really know for sure." NASA admits, however, that had they known about this back in '69, it would have altered their entire lunar exploration strategy. Who knows, we could have all been sipping moon margaritas by now -- on the rocks, of course...
Late last week, the Internet took a giant leap forward, or backward, depending on whom you believe. But you're not likely to hear about this development in PC Week or MacWorld magazine...
WASHINGTON: After weeks of watching and waiting, President Clinton is reportedly ready to take his biggest legal leap against Ken Starr. According to several news organizations, Clinton has began steps to invoke executive privilege in an attempt to edit top aide Bruce Lindsey's testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House aides would neither confirm nor deny the report...
...just any HIV. The Leopoldville sample is the oldest specimen of the AIDS virus ever isolated and may now help solve the mystery of how and when the virus made the leap from animals (monkeys or chimpanzees) to humans, according to a report published last week in Nature. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and one of the study's authors, says a careful genetic analysis of the sample's DNA pushes the putative origin of the AIDS epidemic back at least a decade, to the early '50s or even...