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...latest trend in LA is anti-depressant jewelry, according to W, the glossy version of Women's Wear Daily. Always willing to go that extra mile for their metaphysical well-being, Californians are adoming themselves with gold and silver-plated replicas of Prozac and Zoloft tablets...
Topping this list was Steffenson, who shaved a full ten seconds off of her personal best time in the mile to the wonder of her teammates...
...want to create districts of approximately 500,000 people each. First, find the average per-square-mile population of the state. Next, draw a grid across its map with squares containing an average of 500,000 people in each one. Now comes the unavoidably subjective part. Squares must be added, subtracted and tinkered with until the populations in each district are correct. If the same algorithm is used for every district everywhere (i.e. start at western portion of the state, always expand districts east, then north, then south, etc.), the system becomes largely impartial over the entire nation...
Under heavy pressure from NATO, the U.N., President Clinton and -- most important -- their Russian allies, the Bosnian Serbs pledged their compliance with a NATO ultimatum to either withdraw their weapons from within a 12-mile radius of Sarajevo or turn them over to U.N. peacekeepers. At week's end U.N. observers were reporting "very significant withdrawals of Bosnian-Serb forces." However, there were new reports of Serb atrocities in other parts of Bosnia, particularly near the town of Banja Luka. In a Saturday address, Clinton warned that "American pilots and planes stand ready" to join in NATO air strikes around...
...Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...