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...aides detect a new hesitancy in areas where Clinton has long been firm. Until now, for instance, it is difficult to think of an issue on which Clinton has been more consistent than trade. His campaigns to open markets through NAFTA and the global-trading arrangement known as GATT rank as two of his chief foreign-policy accomplishments...
...assault on the bureau's competence could not come at a worse time. The Capitol is a stew of scandals and suspicion; the Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone...
...unusual and little known military forces in the world. The National Liberation Army (N.L.A.) of Iran is 30,000 strong, fully armored and ready at any moment to do battle. Some 35% of its soldiers are women, as are 70% of its officers. The troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken a vow to remain celibate until Iran is freed. And all express near fanatical loyalty to the woman they hope to install as the next President of Iran: Maryam Rajavi...
...assessment is crucial because there is no average woman. "Individuals have individual risk factors," explains Col. High cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease, may have to be weighed against a mother who died of breast cancer. Col's model, based on data from hundreds of studies, helps rank all these factors. Among other things, it shows that women who at age 50 are already at highest risk of breast cancer and lowest risk of heart disease clearly do not benefit from HRT. Other women could extend their life expectancy from three months to three years...
...believe that you will one day be an angel, a bull in Wyoming or the captain of the Starship Hale-Bopp. In 1944 the court ruled that the free exercise of religion "embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths." By that definition, just about anything goes. In the Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton lists more than 2,100 religions. Herewith, a few of the more unorthodox ones--all of which, by the way, are tax exempt...