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...particular I would have loved to see alive was a short-necked giraffe relative that had huge "antlers," some with a span across the horns of close to 8 ft. (almost 3 m). There were buffalo-size antelopes with massive curving horns, carnivores that must have looked like saber-toothed lions, two distinct species of hippo and at least two types of elephant, one of which had tusks that protruded downward from the lower jaw. We may never know the full extent of this incredible mammalian diversity, but there were probably more than twice as many species a million years...
...year ago. And then I get Ecstasy lying on my desk after months of anticipation, and what's staring at me is a picture of Lou Reed's face (mind you, he's around 58 by my calculations, and it shows) and what looks like Darth Maul's light saber coming out of his neck on both sides. So I do the obvious thing and stick the album on. And almost instantly it hits me. The problem isn't that this is a bad album-it really isn't -but that the best thing I can say about...
...arms race may have been about the best President Clinton could hope for, particularly after his own Senate failed last year to ratify the CTBT. India's nuclear weapons are more of a statement of New Delhi's claim on big-power status than they are an example of saber-rattling against Pakistan. India, for example, wants permanent membership in the U.N. Security Council, and that status has only ever been conferred on nuclear-armed states...
Beijing's saber-rattling across the Taiwan Strait may well signify a coming conflict with Washington, but not necessarily over Taiwan. Beijing's threats to invade if Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday is won by Chen Shui-bian, who previously advocated a referendum on independence, have seen the Taipei stock exchange shed some 12 percent of its value in less than a week, and drawn a warning on Thursday from Defense Secretary William Cohen to tone down the rhetoric. Washington fears the threats from both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would...
...Rather like the current saber-rattling between China and Taiwan, it's the prospect of a presidential election that has raised the political temperature over the issue. If his eagerness to debate gun control is any indication, Clinton obviously feels his vice president is sitting pretty on this issue. And given the general public's rising anger over the recent spate of gun deaths - a frustration reflected in recent polls - he may be right. While Gore has embraced the stance favored by the Clinton administration, Governor Bush's gun control record in Texas has never given the NRA reason...