Word: scares
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WASHINGTON: No matter how much the IRS scares you, it seems to scare its own employees even more. Proof of that came in day three of the Senate's taxman theater, as five long-time IRS agents testified from behind tall gray screens, their voices disguised by electronic warblers. All the cameras could see was the crescent of senators ? among them the thoughtful, blinking Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who let slip the only clue to a witness's identity when he said "sir." The tales of malfeasance flowed like wine: One witness had "been instructed by IRS management not to conduct...
...bombers' object, though, is also to frighten: to scare Israelis, Palestinians and Washington into giving up the process of reconciliation begun four years ago. Security officials in Israel and the U.S. had been bracing for some kind of terrorist strike before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright embarked on her first Middle East mission this week. Security had been beefed up on Ben Yehuda Street, one of three popular public areas the Israelis had specifically suspected might be hit. Yet the suicide bombers demonstrated once again that they could strike at will, reopening the cycle of violence and punishment that...
...they did not scare Albright away. Now more than ever, said a vacationing President Clinton, was her presence needed there. "The perpetrators of this attack intended to kill both innocent people and the peace process itself," he said. "They must not be allowed to succeed...
...World's Magic Kingdom pulled the drawbridge at least partway up, closing swimming pools and water parks an hour before sunset, when the skeeter dinner bell usually sounds. On Long Island, officials considered similar action, including closing parks until the danger subsides. Though the alert is, so far, more scare than scourge, nobody dismisses it. Says Dr. David Graham, an epidemiologist for New York's Suffolk County: "We want to take precautions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Shortly after the Hudson Foods E. coli scare sparked a major outbreak of bad-burger paranoia, University of Wisconsin researchers have taken a major step towards the worry-free barbecue. After sifting through E. coli DNA, scientists from the school's Madison campus announced Thursday that they've successfully sequenced and mapped all 4,288 of the organism's genes. Although the decoded strain is different from the deadly E. coli bacterium which caused 25 million pounds of potentially tainted beef to be recalled last month, TIME science correspondent Madeleine Nash says the discovery is nonetheless a major...