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Doctors combatting malignant tumors often resort to radical surgery to cut out the diseased tissue. So why can't the U.S. military perform a total Saddamectomy? The idea is bubbling anew in Congress and among Bush Administration advisers who passed up the chance to remove the Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last, Worst Hope: How an Invasion Might Go | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...your way home to mommy and daddy, stop byFoxwoods Resort and Casino. Apre-Thanksgiving gambling splurge won't hurtanyone--the food's already paid for. I-95south, Exit 92 for Rte. 2, Ledyard, CT.800-200-2882. Lots and lots of cash...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: LISTINGS | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...viewers see that both Todd and the colonists have worth, despite being tossed aside by society. The film leaves little ambiguity regarding its interpretation, unless one is confused by Soldier's apparent attempt to paint the Darwinian military as somehow more acceptable as long as they do not resort to genetic engineering...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MEN OF WAR | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...does Boris Yeltsin have to worry about assassination, on top of everything else? "Not really, because if you wanted to kill Yeltsin you'd have to go to Sochi, the Black Sea resort to which he's retreated," says Zharakovich. "And once there you'd be distracted by all the other attractions -- it's like Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Bombthrower Takes on Kremlin | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

What Strong's book doesn't explain is why kids who haven't been sexually or physically abused during their childhood resort to cutting. On Dateline NBC, the subject had suffered her parents' painful divorce in early childhood, which, with the birth of a physically and mentally disabled younger brother, was enough to produce self-injury later in life...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting the Pain Away | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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