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Taking Foreign Cultures 66, "Tiananmen," gives me a very weird feeling, something like drinking poison to quench my thirst. The course, as it progresses, will be hard for me to swallow if I don't find a way to immediately get rid of my stubborn national protectionism from the Chinese sense of pride. So far the possibility of such a solution remains...
BETWEEN 1961 AND 1966, COLORADO'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN Arsenal cranked out 300,000 M-55 rockets, which are now stockpiled at five of the nation's chemical-weapons storage sites. Too late, the Army discovered that the design of the weapon has a potentially fatal flaw: sarin, the deadly poison that was packed into the nose cone, tends to corrode the aluminum casing. And sarin leaking into the rear chamber accelerates the decay of the stabilizing agent that prevents the rocket fuel from "auto-igniting.'' Because there is no way to safely dismantle the rocket, the deadly nerve agent...
...from United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright--have sounded the alarm in recent weeks. But once again international action--if it ever comes-may be too late to save Burundi from self-destruction. "What is happening here is like a poison gas," warns U.N. senior political adviser Hani Abdel-Aziz in Bujumbura. "You don't feel it because you don't have 100,000 dead at once. But people are dying every single...
...G.O.P. prevails, the ranks of the uninsured seem sure to grow. The Urban Institute, a Washington research group, projects that between 4 million and 9 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage, depending on how states carry out the change. As a result, the cuts could inadvertently poison the prospects for welfare reform. How? It's a matter of incentives. As states cut back, they're likely to leave coverage for the truly destitute intact but drop it for working families struggling near the poverty line. Losing the Medicaid that covers their kids will be another way of telling these Americans...
...Shoot," he mutters as he walks back to his beat-up Toyota. "See, these are the ones." Davis means the cases that despite his 13 years of experience investigating child-abuse cases in San Diego County still poison his sleep and send him off to a therapist periodically. "The ones where the kids have broken bones are easier," he says. In those cases, Davis has little difficulty deciding that the children would be better off in the custody of strangers. But what to make of a case like Roper's? Her seven-year-old son is attending school regularly...