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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then they've got to have muscles," says Paul Calvert, a materials scientist at the University of Arizona. He uses polymer gels to construct "Jell-O jacks," which resemble the wobbly dessert but are capable of raising and lowering small objects. Agrees Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University: "The only bottleneck is that we haven't found the perfect muscle materials...
...York Democrats are worried that they may be left in the lurch if HILLARY CLINTON ends up deciding not to seek the Senate seat from their state next year. One possible contender had been ANDREW CUOMO, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who thought about running but then announced he wouldn't in order to spend time helping AL GORE get elected President. Now there are hopes that he may reconsider and get in the race if Hillary decides not to. His father MARIO CUOMO was disappointed by his initial decision, and has let his feelings be known...
When the scandal broke, Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright all warned publicly that this episode must not interfere with constructive relations with China. They were so fast and voluble in defending their China policy last week that they skidded close to confirming the critics' accusation that they are more interested in a "strategic partnership" with Beijing than in facing up to their espionage problem...
...according to the American Petroleum Institute. Almost 140,000 domestic oil wells have been abandoned in little over a year, principally in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Louisiana, forcing U.S. daily production down by 360,000 bbl. a day. In Alaska, which depends on tax revenues from oil, the state is forecasting a $1 billion budget gap, equal to about half the money it needs to pay for the day-to-day running of government...
...play as he had before. This might be the statistic that most reveals DiMaggio's greatness, for it tells us he was blessed with that rarest of athletic gifts: knowing when it was time to leave. He simply would not let the world see him play in a diminished state. Instead, he left us with the image--and the record--of someone who very nearly achieved perfection...