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Most disturbing, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct against President Clinton, his approval ratings have shot through the roof. Americans are either giving him the benefit of the doubt or believing his (still missing) side of the story. In the absence of concrete evidence that the President forced anyone to lie, people seem to feel they have no real reason to question him for being less than forthcoming about Monica Lewinsky. There is no sexual harassment alleged. No one got hurt, and Lewinsky may even have almost gotten a job out of it. The economy is strong...
...quintessential image of World War II was the flag raising at Iwo Jima. For Vietnam, it was a helicopter scrambling off the U.S. embassy roof in Saigon. Apocalypse Then: the chaotic endgame of the Vietnam War fatally charged the atmosphere of the 1970s, a decade in which America discovered limits to its power and wealth. For a nation long accustomed to expansion--material, geographic and psychological--this was something new and unwelcome. Only the Great Depression--an apt name--had presented a comparable challenge to national optimism, and that was followed by the reassuring wartime victory and postwar boom...
There were stories of survival too improbable for Hollywood. After a twister ripped off the roof of Steve Mitchell's house in the Flamingo Lakes subdivision near Kissimmee, Mitchell found his 8-year-old son still sleeping safely--and soundly--in his room. There were, of course, tales of tragedy as well. Five-year-old Ashley Himes was the sole survivor after a tornado ripped apart her family's triple-wide mobile home in Sanford, in Seminole County. Her mother Penny Hall, 21, her mother's fiance Kevin Taylor, 23, and her grandparents Edward and Debra Hall were all killed...
...while backgammon counters slap, slap in the background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player as his friends nod agreement, "so I do not worry...
Although most facilities there are used exclusively by researchers, on the third Thursday of every month at 8 p.m. the observatory does sponsor a public program using the large refraction telescope on the observatory's roof...