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Without violence it will be difficult to prove my guilt in court, but the difficulty involved in legally implicating me in this murder does not render my intention to kill you less criminal. Does the fact that I never touched you, that you decided yourself to jump, make you any less dead...
...treatment, reported by Dr. Elizabeth Ziegler and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, employs a man-made antibody called HA-1A designed to zero in on the endotoxin molecule and render it harmless. Although the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve HA-1A for use in the U.S., the agency has given the Pentagon special permission to utilize the antibody in the gulf. Large quantities are on hand in MASH units and field hospitals...
...main reason for the new candor is last year's much maligned budget agreement, which sets firm caps on discretionary spending for the next five years and prevents meddling with all but the details of federal programs. The new rules render preposterous budgets unnecessary and encourage negotiators to make hard choices. When total spending levels are fixed, there is little point in inflating revenue estimates through rosy economic assumptions. Moreover, the caps will force both parties to make spending decisions carefully. Democrats who want to spend more on, say, housing must carve the money from another program. This programmatic triage...
Most Coveted Low-Paying Job At least 27,000 Muscovites decided they deserved a break today and applied for 605 positions at the new Moscow branch of McDonald's. The company tutored its Soviet employees on how to render in Russian such McLingo as "You want fries with that...
...that lacked congressional approval. "The number is widely inflated," he says. "A lot of them don't count, since they were for limited circumstances and for short periods of time." In his view, the fact that the congressional war-power clause has sometimes been ignored does not render it moot. Says Van Alstyne: "The extent to which the allocation of war powers has been disregarded for the past 25 years is no reason we should continue to disregard...