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...first floor of the city's former Communist Party headquarters, doctors operated throughout the shelling as jeeps and ambulances arrived carrying the wounded. In the building's foyer, an old woman stared in grief at the body of her dead son, her rhythmic cries punctuated by the deep roar of artillery. On the sidewalk outside, a man waiting for news of his own son's wounds turned to those near him and asked, "Do you see the life we live...
...traditional homes into the snowy mountain passes, they are still living in hunger and cold, their survival dependent on aid from abroad. They are safe from attack only because the victors of the gulf war have warned the Iraqi military to keep its distance. U.S. and British jets regularly roar low over the region to remind Iraqi soldiers that they are being watched. "When I don't hear the sound of the planes," says a Kurdish refugee, "I can't sleep at night...
...money and influence, including Congressmen and Senators, whose taste for junketeering is legendary. The White House advance teams, the Secret Service -- which deploys hundreds of agents on some presidential trips -- are made up of young men and women who are thrilled by the adventure. Concocted and hyped crowds roar approval. Add it all up, and a President gets the feeling he rides with the gods. It is an illusion...
...rational," he remembers. He got the kids into their tennis shoes, backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found the savings bonds and the photo albums. "I got an armful of suits and two pair of shoes," recalls John. The kids, watching from the station wagon, began screaming...
Imagine an amplifier powerful enough to convert the inaudible whir of butterfly wings into a mighty roar. That's what a new tool called PCR routinely does to the most infinitesimal snippets of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic blueprint for all living things. Within the space of a few hours, an unprepossessing aluminum box stuffed with test tubes can create a billion copies of what started out as a single strip of DNA. A dividing cancer cell would take at least a month to perform the same stupendous feat. "This technique," marvels Dr. Harley Rotbart, a microbiologist...