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...spying mission, to Panama. He recalls Luxmore warming to the topic at hand: "Not only have the Americans signed a totally misbegotten treaty with the Panamanians--given away the shop, thank you very much Mr. Jimmy Carter!--they're also proposing to honour it." A frightful power vacuum will occur, Luxmore argues, when the U.S. cedes control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians on Dec. 31, 1999. "Our task--your task--will be to provide the grounds, young Mr. Osnard, the arguments, the evidence needful to bring our American allies to their senses...
...would disagree, however, that the challenges facing us today are global, and will escape isolated attempts at resolution. The UN offers a needed framework in which the discussion of international issues may occur, and from which their resolutions may be launched. The UN has not irretrievably failed as many claim; it cannot as long as we continue to acknowledge its necessity and work towards its improvement. The celebration today is a recognition of the enduring importance and achievements of the United Nations. As Indian diplomat and noted author Shashi Tharoor once wrote, "Let's take care...
...what the article I read in the Times should reinforce is that, although the rhetoric of the Holocaust may be among its only tangible legacies for those of us who are young, these words have real meanings--they refer to one of the most monstrous events ever to occur in the annals of man. I am well acquainted with it: Many members of my family were among its victims. Any tragedy is not a "Holocaust" or a "genocide," nor is every right-winger a "Nazi" or a "Fascist." Using these terms where they are not applicable trivializes the ideas they...
Doherty and Zinkernagel showed that the white blood cells of the immune system look for changes in a key marker called the self protein, which identifies cells as belonging to one's own body. Any alterations in this protein--such as those that occur when a cell is invaded by a virus--tag the cell for destruction. Doherty and Zinkernagel's research, which won this year's Physiology or Medicine Nobel, could lead to new kinds of vaccines against cancer, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders...
...white kids from the suburbs? No," Grewal says. "We're foreshadowing the demographic changes that have to occur in the environmental movement nationally because we're the [next] generation...