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...escapees are now called the Connally Seven, after the John Connally maximum-security prison 60 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas, they so brazenly broke out of on Dec. 13. But they might just as well be called the Rivas Gang, to give credit where credit is due. Most law-enforcement officers believe George Rivas, 30, is not only the first among the seven, but also the brains behind the entire operation--smart enough to begin plotting the escape six months in advance and smart enough to ingratiate himself and his trusted companions into the right work duty...
...Kabila had no political base, of course, outside of his home region in the far-off southeast, and his autocratic ineptitude and shameless cronyism did little to endear him to the residents of the capital, who saw him as a Rwandan imposition on a country that might have had its own ideas on alternatives to Mobutu. Kabila's failure to stamp out the Hutu insurgency exasperated the Rwandans, and his leadership style fomented widespread resentment in the ranks of those who'd fought in the rebel armies of the east. When Kabila switched his support to the Hutu groups...
...updated story, though, Noah is not the skipper of the rescue project. Instead, it's the name given in advance to the clone of a dead gaur, an endangered wild ox found in India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. The new Noah is expected to be born any day now to Bessie, a cow living on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa. Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species. "The gaur is developing well," says...
...fury of Cyclone Eline. With it, land near the Limposo River was swamped; by early March at least 200 Mozambicans had died, a million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house in which she had lived since...
...What happened? Bad weather in the Midwest and Southeast kept shoppers home; rising fuel prices kept their budgets tight. There was that whole presidential election thing. And as George W. Bush has been so studiously pointing out, we're in the middle of an economic slowdown. And shoppers, who account for two-thirds of the U.S. economy, know...