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Marking hisfirst anniversary as president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela announced that prisoners charged with possession of weapons for political purposes will be freed ahead of schedule. TIME South Africa reporter Peter Hawthorne says that in general, the celebration has been decidedly low key: "Most people took a holiday, but there's been no great dancing in the streets." Mandela made his announcement before a crowd of about 5,000 in Pretoria, which was only a tenth the size of the crowd that witnessed his inauguration last year. But then, stability draws smaller crowds. "People were concerned that expectations couldn...
...regulations ridiculous, or are complainers whining obsessives who see any authority as infuriatingly parental? The man who founded Earth Day, former Senator Gaylord Nelson, says emphatically that "there are good environmentalists who see too much red tape and too many mandates, and they think it can be improved and they're right. The environmentalists have failed on this. They haven't fought to ensure environmental laws were effective without being excessive. They haven't done a damn thing about that...
Saying she had "more pressing" interests,Winnie Mandelaresigned from her Cabinet post one day before her estranged husband, President Nelson Mandela, was to dismiss her. Mrs. Mandela will remain an ANC member of Parliament and athorn in the president's side...
...Nelson explained that since such materials would be easier to cool, his "dream" is an MRI "similar to Star Trek, the size of a hand-held calculator," rather than the current MRIs which are the size of a small room which often disturb claustrophobic patients...
...While Nelson developed some of the theory behind these new techniques, Lieber has been working to synthesize new materials, including carbon nitride, a substance perhaps harder than diamond, which could be used for protective coatings and new cutting tools, according to the Harvard Gazette...