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...Hatch realized that Republicans could inadvertently be creating a new voting bloc--anti-anti-Castro Cuban Americans--he postponed the hearings (forever, perhaps?) and rethought the possible witnesses. But Democrats will surely insist on calling "the Fisherman"--a cross between Kato Kaelin and William Ginsburg. It will be a priceless television moment when Dalrymple tells how he and Marisleysis let Elian lick his face. The Democrats will also relish hearing from the paramilitary group, Alpha 66, and the four guards with concealed-weapons permits who patrolled the encampment...
...Celera, applications for patents on human genes were pouring in by the thousands. Biotech firms are seeking rights to genes that might control everything from the neurotransmitters in your brain to susceptibility to chronic diseases. The frenzy is rekindling fears that a few corporations will end up controlling a priceless resource...
Second place doesn't really mean much, but the opportunity for a season sweep of the Crimson's main rival is priceless...
...Postulate 3: Amidst all this beverage befuddlement, this southern belle promptly lost, and found, and lost again, the worlds most priceless object, The Jewel of Denial, picked up an inspector-gadget type at the bar (color: plaid), discovered her family heritage, failed to fire her criminal maid, financed an expedition to Egypt worthy of the Natural History Museums Alumni Tours, forgot to stop at the Nile, befriended a beheaded Pharoahs wife, and used, we presume, approximately 36 cans of hairspray to hold her coiffure firmly three feet above her head...
...bombed-out embassy in Belgrade: $28 million. Repairing U.S. relations with China over the matter: Priceless. At least that's what the Clinton administration hopes after agreeing to pay China $28 million in compensation for inadvertently wrecking the country's Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo conflict. In return, Beijing will pay Washington $2.87 million for damage to the U.S. embassy during the ensuing protests in China's capital. "Bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was a terrible mistake that dramatically set back relations with Beijing and fueled China's paranoia about Washington's intentions," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...