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...money paid for power and light, or the raw materials it bought or the taxes it paid. Lenin missed this." Even more important, Museveni saw firsthand that nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide to make sure his message has been received. "You have to base your production strategy on the selfish individual, not the altruistic minority." He compared how well his family had looked after their cows to Tanzanian mismanagement of state property...
...compared with what awaits us when employers and insurance companies start testing our DNA for possible imperfections. Farfetched? More than 200 subjects in a case study published last January in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics reported that they had been discriminated against as a result of genetic testing. None of them were actually sick, but DNA analysis suggested that they might become sick someday. "The technology is getting ahead of our ethics," says Nagel, and the Clinton Administration clearly agrees. It is about to propose a federal law that would protect medical and health-insurance records from such abuses...
...affluent couple to deflect attention from themselves or to win sympathy from a jury pool if either or both are charged with their daughter's murder. But Haddon told TIME the probe has elicited nine "substantial, credible leads," all tied to suspects who are not John or Patsy Ramsey. None of these leads are yet strong enough to hand over to the Boulder authorities, Haddon said. But he insisted that the investigation is not a hedge against possible criminal indictments. "The Ramseys won't have any peace until it's solved," he said. With that sentiment, at least, nearly everyone...
...bureau of diplomatic security has turned to a curious spokesman in its attempt to stop worldwide terrorism. Besides placing macabre, slasher-movie-style newspaper ads in the International Herald Tribune offering up to $2 million for information about assaults on American citizens abroad, the State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case (Sheen admitted spending...
BERLIN: What made Egon Krenz so unlucky? East Germany's last communist leader, convicted today of manslaughter for the deaths of civilians who tried to escape his country before the fall of the Berlin Wall, got none of the breaks of his predecessor. Erich Honecker, the quintessential hardliner who ruled East Germany for 18 years, was judged too ill to stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until...