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...weather in outer space? No doubt about it. Experts think a spark shorted out the connections between the satellite's solar-power panels and several dozen of its radio relays. The spark, in turn, was caused by an electromagnetic storm triggered when a blast of solar gas slammed into the earth's magnetic field at supersonic speed...
Whatever happens in the fall, a legacy of Perot's race may spark a more durable movement that survives his defeat. Owing to the energy from 1992 and Perot's push this year, Reform parties in various stages of development are gaining traction in half the states. Lamm has said Perot is not the figure to take the Reform Party into the Promised Land of electoral viability. "Pass me the torch," he has implored the Founder. Perot has no intention of doing that just yet, and anyone who comes near it is likely to get burned--if Perot doesn...
...accounts, outside it. The FBI was steamed that Jewell's name had been leaked, perhaps by local officials. That may have stymied the bureau's interview strategy designed to trip up bomb suspects who are small-time law enforcers and may have a "modified Munchausen complex"--a need to spark a potential tragedy from which they can emerge as heroes. The publicity may have prevented this line of questioning of Jewell. FBI Director Lewis J. Freeh, says an agent, is "beyond angry on this...
...says Holbrooke. The challenge is not only to get Karadzic out of Bosnia but to turn him over for trial at the Hague. The U.S. could use force to arrest or snatch him, but the European allies are not on board for that, and such an effort would probably spark retaliation and bloodshed. Renewed fighting is the last thing Bill Clinton wants in an election year, so Karadzic may not be going anywhere...
...ties between the two institutions run deep, and later this month Wired Ventures Ltd.--several of whose chief stockholders are GBN partners--plans a public stock offering. If all goes well, Wired and GBN insiders stand to be handsomely enriched by the very high-tech fever they've helped spark. "We have business ties, intellectual ties and friendship ties," says GBN founder Peter Schwartz of his friends at Wired. "Now I hope we'll cash...