Word: seriousness
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...rebel republic - and was met with a resounding "nyet." Putin simply emphasized that Chechnya was an internal fight against terrorism, and shouldn't impinge on U.S.-Russian relations. Despite appearances, however, Putin, may not be the man in charge of the Chechnya campaign. "The generals have reemerged as a serious force in Russian politics," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "The process began with last year's sudden deployment in Kosovo, which was a far more serious development in Russian domestic politics than the West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch...
...competition among cities to have the tallest building in the world. A few years ago the Malaysians erected twin towers that were 33 ft. higher than Chicago's Sears Tower, which had been the world's tallest building for more than 20 years. I realize that this was a serious provocation. A lot of Chicagoans have always been mildly offended by A.J. Liebling's description of Chicago as the Second City, after all, and even Liebling didn't have in mind being second to Kuala Lumpur...
...prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain thought to serve as a kind of moral and social compass. The woman was run over by a car at 15 months; the man had a brain tumor removed at three months. Both made remarkable recoveries until they began to display serious behavioral problems...
Ssshhh. Don't tell Congress, but nobody's taking this overthrowing Saddam thing very seriously. Iraqi oppositionists report for military training in the U.S. this week, following a weekend conference in New York sponsored by the State Department, but neither the opposition nor Washington has a serious strategy for overthrowing the Iraqi dictator. "This is pretty much a charade," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "President Clinton adopted the Iraq Liberation Act for domestic political reasons, as a way of showing the U.S. was doing something about Saddam without actually doing anything significant. People in the Pentagon believe that unless...
Although Panama has no standing army and its 12,000 domestic security personnel would be no match for any serious aggressor, the 1977 treaty also allows the U.S. to intervene militarily if the security of the Canal Zone is threatened. And since Beijing's ability to project military power even as far as Taiwan and the Spratly Islands is looking somewhat questionable, Central America is probably a little out of reach. "We wouldn't have adopted the treaty if it was going to hurt national security," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And besides, there's no strategic threat...