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...only surprise for many observers was that it took so long for the putsch to come. Large tracts of Peruvian territory have been overrun by drug traffickers and vicious Shining Path guerrillas, whose terrorist campaign has reached the shantytowns around Lima, the nation's capital. Less than 20% of the work force is employed full time. More than half of Peru's 22 million people live in dismal poverty; a recent cholera epidemic killed more than...
Scientists may be one step closer to unravelling the complex path of the human embryo's development form the joining of sperm and egg to birth, thanks to a team of researchers at Boston Children's Hospital...
...Quebec government declared these people -- the Cree, the Mohawk, the Huron, the Algonquin and others -- distinct nations, and offered them a path to self-government within Quebec's boundaries. But if you think that 20,000 Cree and Inuit are going to leave Quebec and take two-thirds of its territory...
Those Washington spoon-bending parties are regularly attended by top brass from the Pentagon. The German government paid DM 400,000 (about $250,000) in 1990 to hire dowsers to scan federal offices and hospitals so that desks and beds could be relocated out of the path of the deadly E rays that authorities have accepted as real. Our own Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has urged government funding for supernatural research, fearful that Russian scientists might be ahead of the U.S. in paranormal matters. Until recently, Pell retained a special assistant...
...messy society, where institutions are weak and don't mean much to the people. There's not much consensus on the system (which was democratic until Monday), and most real authority lies with groups outside of the formal structures of government--like the vicious Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas...