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...plutonium-loaded Cassini probe, which blasts off Monday, safe? (TIME Daily...
WASHINGTON: Is the Cassini probe, which heads for Saturn Monday, nothing more than a space-bound H-bomb? Despite the spaceship being laden with 72 pounds of highly toxic plutonium, the chances of a nuclear nightmare are actually quite remote. TIME science correspondent Jeffery Kluger reports that "Cassini's opponents have shown an extreme excess of caution. Dozens of spacecraft have flown with nuclear power sources, and so far, there have been no accidents...
...first move was Bill Clinton's. Bouncing smartly off the news that Attorney General Janet Reno had started the process that may end with an independent counsel to probe his White House phone calls, Clinton announced he would keep Congress in session until it debated the reform bill. That posed a problem for Senate majority leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, who doesn't think a system in which Republicans raised $549 million in campaign '96--at least 50% more than the Democrats--needs all that much reforming. He also knows that Fred Thompson's Senate hearings, while intended...
Attorney General Janet Reno buys more time for Gore probe (TIME Daily...
Instead, Black began to use radio waves, which cook the cancer to death right away. A few years ago, he developed a treatment that uses an MRI-guided radio-wave probe to reach into a tumor. The procedure can be performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis and be repeated as needed. Now Black wants to eliminate even this mildly invasive probe with something he calls the MedArray. The prototype, which Black expects to be ready for trials next year, looks like an MRI with microwave antennas lining the chamber. Using the MRI's images, the MedArray computer maps...