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...eschewed conventional wisdom, which holds any effort to start work on deploying a new missile defense system as a violation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Instead, they reportedly argue that the U.S. can begin clearing the system's proposed site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, and even pour its concrete foundations, without technically violating the agreement. But there is no court that umpires adherence to arms-control treaties, and Clinton's legal team is extremely unlikely to convince Russia's President Vladimir Putin that Washington isn't fouling...
...March, the stories--of toddlers caught in a cross fire, grandmothers murdered on vacation, six-year-olds gunned down at school--are as essential to the cause as are the T shirts and the slick website. The Million Mom March could not exist without such anguish. The stories that pour forth from women who have lost loved ones to gun violence are deeply personal and unremittingly awful. The tears flow at press conferences and in meetings at the White House. And this Mother's Day, as moms from around the country converge on the Washington Mall, the tears will spill...
...young to care for it? What if the infant is sickly and seems likely to languish no matter how well it's looked after? Humans agonize over these situations, but mothers throughout the animal kingdom show a surprising willingness to abandon or even kill such luckless young rather than pour energy down a bottomless reproductive well...
...Even before the vote, the U.S. had warned that violent intimidation by Fujimori supporters during the campaign had jeopardized chances of a free and fair ballot. And as results began to pour in, so did allegations that many ballot papers had Fujimori's name preselected or opposition leader Alejandro Toledo's name cut off, as well as claims that people were accessing the electoral commission's computer system from Internet cafes and tampering with results. Toledo, a Harvard-trained economist who had jumped in a matter of weeks from about 5 percent support to win more than 40 percent...
...more discriminating customer may also demand more unusual products. "We're attracting people who are fed up with buying just because they've been told to buy," says Anne Schneider, managing director in Britain of French niche house L'Artisan Parfumeur, whose scents include Mure et Musc and Mimosa pour...