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...perjury, Ken Starr is wielding a double-edged sword that cuts both informer and informee. And so it was that Linda Tripp found herself under independent counsel investigation late Monday for lying to the grand jury about the tapes she made of conversations with Monica Lewinsky. The FBI Audio Signal Analysis Unit found that nine of her tapes are not consistent with the recording equipment Tripp says she used -- and as the Starr report suggests in one of its voluminous footnotes, that means Tripp may have erased vital moments of her exchange with Monica. Moreover, if she "duplicated any tapes...
With resignation unlikely and impeachment still unappealing, some on Capitol Hill were thinking that something in the middle might be best. Censuring the President in a symbolic vote by both houses has all the music of compromise that lawmakers love: it sends the moral signal that Clinton's behavior was wrong and unacceptable, but it stops well short of running him off. Both Republicans and Democrats could take their pound of flesh just a few weeks before the election, but without lowering themselves to Starr's level. Under the circumstances, says a presidential adviser, they would gladly settle...
...wildly popular fen/phen regimen) can trigger an abnormal thickening of the heart valves, which may cause a backward flow and pooling of blood. Cardiologists pay special attention to such "leaky valves" because they are particularly vulnerable to infection, may predispose you to congestive heart failure or may signal the need for surgery...
...Darren L. Leigh, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the equipment used in the Harvard SETI project and who has served as one of Horowitz's research assistants since 1992, helped build computers that screen the frequencies and then "send you e-mail if it has a possibly right signal," Leigh says. This project was called Billion Channel Extraterrestrial Assay, or BETA and is the system still in operation today...
Leigh also said the signal has to originate "not from the Earth [but] from a fixed point...