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...kept his gun holstered for a little more than a week after U.S. warplanes pounded his military sites, but now Saddam Hussein is firing back--and beginning the next round of his war with Washington. One of his mobile surface-to-air missile batteries near the northern town of Mosul launched three SAMs at U.S. jet fighters patrolling the no-fly zone last week. Two days later, more SAMs were launched from the Talil air base in southern Iraq against British and U.S. warplanes. Both times the pilots under attack jinked their planes in evasive maneuvers, avoiding the missiles. Then...
...slaughterhouse capacity, has pushed the price of pigs down to levels not seen since the Depression. "It's a lethal mixture," says Al Tank, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council. Across the South and Midwest, farmers are losing thousands of dollars a day, drifting deeper into debt and near bankruptcy; fully 20% could be belly-up by spring. A government forecast on the hog supply last week promised little relief. "It's the most serious agricultural crisis in this century for an individual commodity," says Gilbert Hollis, a professor at the University of Illinois. The industry, which has lost...
DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
Blindsided by Venter's surprise announcement, leaders of the federal genome project--which is being carried out at university and government labs in the U.S., at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England, and at facilities in Germany and Japan--spent the summer rethinking their schedule. The result: an announcement last fall that they would finish up by 2003 rather than 2005, with a rough "working draft" of the genome to be published...
Cabot's basement is not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing study venue that Harvard has to offer, which is exactly why it fits the needs of the procrastinator. No fun and exciting decorations to look at. Visual distraction is eliminated by mini- malism. Avoid the comfy couches and chairs near the basement entrance: if any procrastinator sits here, she becomes the basement's welcoming committee for any and all remote acquaintances. In addition, these comfortable furnishings are more conductive to sleep than study...