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...Reported by William Dowell/U.N. and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...play that dare not speak its name. In London the title of Mark Ravenhill's first work for the stage was obscured by discreet asterisks. In the U.S., where the ethics of oral sex is now bandied about on the evening news, the full obscenity has been restored, thus preventing most publications (including this one) from printing the play's name. But Shopping and F______ is more than just a shock-provoking title. The play opens with a character vomiting, assaults us with rough language and features brutally graphic scenes of sadomasochistic sex. Ah, the magic of live theater...
...Achieving this mark is very important to the team, especially to the juniors and seniors," said junior center Paul Fisher. "It's nice to be recognized as one of the best classes to come through Harvard...
WASHINGTON: What exactly is biological warfare equipment, anyway? Since bio-weapons can be made in a beer fermenter, reports that Russia may have sold biological warfare equipment to Iraq are difficult to pin down. "Most of the equipment concerned has a dual use," says TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Even the United States sold Iraq biotoxins and other dual-use equipment before the Gulf War, and the Russians may have done so since...
Using air power to force Iraq to back down on chemical weapons is a lot more difficult than ejecting it from Kuwait, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. Bombing is unlikely to destroy Baghdad's chemical weapons. "We'd need to destroy not only the weapons but also the scientists that create them, but we don't know where to find them," he says. "That's why inspections are better than attacks." And if bombing prompts Iraq to end to the weapons inspection program, the allies would be left with the unpalatable prospect of fighting the Gulf War all over...