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...wholesale privatization of American life may give conservatives goose pimples, but it also produces a kind of civic isolation. And Fortress America, ringed with gated communities and checkpoints and motion detectors, is a foreboding example of self-sufficiency. Says urban planner Oscar Newman: ``People who live in these communities tend not to participate very much in the affairs of the surrounding communities. I find that a little scary.'' Privatization is also a lot less liberating for the millions of Americans who can't afford their own private police, schools, street cleaners and country clubs...
...destructive behavior of each quake is subject to countless variables: the direction of fracturing, the composition of underlying soils, whether the motion occurs close to the surface (as in Kobe) or deeper underground (Northridge), even the time of day or night. The severity of a quake as gauged by energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count...
...reports in the British journal Nature overturned some long-held notions of , how AIDS progresses, thereby sparking a flurry of enthusiasm from usually frustrated researchers. Instead of a slow-motion war of attrition, scientists now believe that HIV and the patient's immune system fight pitched battles from the start, with both sides sustaining enormous losses. The studies help explain why previous drug therapies have proved to be ineffective, but also suggest new strategies -- a multiple-drug attack against the virus early in the course of the disease, for instance -- that could hold the disease at bay and maybe even...
...moment the invasion began on Dec. 11, it violated just about every rule of modern warfare. The slow-motion operation gave the rebels plenty of time to organize and arm. A barrage of air strikes failed to do anything but stiffen resistance. Once the fight was joined, the Chechens made hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket...
...ever heard in a court of law in 32 years of practicing law . . . To say that our mostly African American jurors can't be fair is absolutely outrageous." At one point during the back-and-forth O.J. Simpson began to cry. The upshot? Judge Lance Ito said the motion to block the defense from questioning Fuhrman was "premature...