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Almost completely ravished during World War II, Munich has yet to finish the task of rebuilding. Bombed-out churches and rubble-filled lots dot the landscape. Lacking the money to restore all of the city's splendid buildings and monuments, painters have recreated some of the original structures on plain walls, complete with stairs and windows. The bright colors of the fake buildings create the atmosphere of an outdoor circus or the set for a play...
Last week's GAO study, however, makes plain that the current American law is riddled with complicating ambiguities and shortcomings. Many of the problems arise from confusion over what constitutes a bribe. So-called grease payments, such as fees to get low-level civil servants to perform their bureaucratic duties of stamping documents and processing licenses, are specifically permitted on the grounds that petty corruption is unavoidable almost anywhere. But there is a large gray area between that sort of bureaucratic paper shuffling and the discretionary authority of local officials to withhold approval for a project or license...
...gravis, a muscle-weakening disease in which antibodies damage the microscopic junctions where nerves and muscles meet. Because frentizole comes in powder form, the scientists first dissolved it in DMSO, a powerful solvent. Then they injected one group of laboratory rats with the frentizole solution and another group with plain DMSO to serve as a control. To their surprise, they found after a week that both groups of rats had significantly lower levels of the destructive antibodies. Further tests showed that the DMSO alone, not the frentizole, had countered the antibodies. Researcher Pestronk urges caution, however: "Our studies should...
...they found she was suffering from peritonitis. What's a virile guy like me supposed to do? We're winning the war of words in D.C. too. Ling-Ling -that's my new love object-got her keeper to say that Hubby Hsing-Hsing is "just plain inept," and I like the Washington keeper's rugged sports metaphor, that Hsing-Hsing has to avoid hurt feelings like ''a football player when he's taken off the team...
Coach Martin observed. "We knew it was going to be tough without Terry, who's probably the best player in New England, but in that last game, we just choked plain and simple...