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...six-day run of closed-door talks between U.S. and Cuban negotiators ended today, amid indications that a sliver of middle ground on the refugee crisis could emerge by week's end. Chief Cuban delegate Ricardo Alarcon left New York for Havana after an hourlong mini-summit this morning with Michael Skol, the U.S. representative. Alarcon, who plans to consult with higher-ups at home, said he would return "in a few days." U.S. officials, who have offered to accept 20,000 Cubans in return for a halt to the boatlift, suggested they were disappointed with a new Cuban counterproposal...
...trying to accelerate the peace process in the Middle East, having failed to jump-start negotiations between Israel and Syria. After a three-hour meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, Christopher said the two Mideast countries are still deadlocked over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Assad, more vaguely, said he was open to "discuss steps" that might help advance Christoper's aims when the American returns there in early August...
...six-day shower of debris on Jupiter, which ended at 4 p.m. EDT, prompted Net bombardment on Earth. The sites providing spectacular images of the actual collisions were some of the most popular. The Internet address at the National Space Science Data Center, for example, was hit with 5,400 accesses an hour during its peak period. Now that the Jupiter light show is history, the most trafficked locations are a lot less jammed. Reach the National Space Science Data Center at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html.
...conference of high school college counselors and college admissions officers will conclude a six-day annual meeting in Quincy House today...
...dammit, if you wind up any given season with no wins or an ERA over 6.00, you don't deserve to stay up. If that means That each major league staff is reduced to six or seven pitchers, so be it. A guy named Old Hoss Radbourne once threw five complete games in a six-day span just before the turn of the century, so don't tell me that Roger Clemens' arm can't function without four days' rest...