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Sojourner also managed to obtain a "fingerprint" of the other chemicals in Barnacle Bill. The fingerprint turned out to be virtually identical to those of the 12 meteorites found on Earth that are believed to have Martian origins. "So," concluded University of Tennessee scientist Hap McSween after the visit to Barnacle Bill, "now we can say that we have analyzed 13 Martian rocks...
Fourteen years ago, I was a new graduate nurse employed in a Veterans Administration medical center. I thought it was unconscionable for the hospital to distribute scrip for the patients to obtain free cigarettes in the hospital commissary while nurses administered chemotherapy to cancer patients who smoked. Patients were grotesquely disfigured by the surgical removal of facial cancers or had legs amputated because of vascular disease caused by cigarette addiction. Many of these veterans told me their first cigarettes were courtesy of the military while they were in the service. How ironic that war did not maim or kill these...
...stop bad marriages before they start. The best part of Louisiana's law requires serious premarital counseling. So many of us, under the sway of Mad-Love Disease, haven't got a clue about what we're entering into. A marriage license should be at least as hard to obtain as a driver's license. Requiring the marital equivalent of being able to parallel park might knock a little sense into heads more concerned with registering at Bloomingdale's than deciding whether the kids will be baptized...
...seated provisional legislature ratified a law giving police the power to ban political demonstrations, more than 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators marched through the downtown area deriding China's form of government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting Thursday, when all demonstrators must obtain a permit from local authorities before assembling. In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets...
...impossible to arrange. Locating and capturing Kansi became a high-priority project for FBI and CIA personnel in Pakistan, a rare joint venture by the rival agencies. Several times, when agents thought they were close to nabbing Kansi, President Clinton became directly involved, contacting leaders in southwestern Asia to obtain clearance to send in U.S. agents--only to have them fail to get their...