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...agreement they were meant to police is no more than a bit of litter on the floor of Sankoh's trashed house (where a New York Times reporter found an original, signed copy after the rebel leader had fled) and the international forces are scrambling to organize defenses to stave off a rebel assault on the capital. Britain, the country's former colonizer, has some 700 paratroopers in there to evacuate Europeans and to stiffen the spine of Freetown's defenders. And the U.S. has promised to fly in anybody willing to fight as long as they're not American...
...looks as if environmental and consumer activists aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the genetically modified (GM) crops currently sprouting from American soil. On Wednesday, hoping to stave off a European-style anti-GM panic, the Clinton administration announced a laundry list of procedures designed to make Americans a bit more comfortable in the presence of so-called "Frankenfoods." The proposed changes will establish government oversight with regard to labeling foods made with genetically altered crops (including an industry-opposed measure to label products as GM-free); allow the Food and Drug Administration a four-month lead time...
...week ago at an exclusive diving resort off Malaysia - unless the Philippines army withdraws troops surrounding the area where they're being held. But the Philippines government says retreat is out of the question. Besides having to cope with being held hostage by a fanatical organization fighting to stave off extinction at the hands of the government forces, the erstwhile vacationers are suffering from deteriorating health from a diet of rice and rainwater and growing anxiety of dying in a shoot-out. Although the government has appointed a former commander of a rival rebel group to negotiate with the abductors...
...Internet parodists to produce material similar to the original than, say, those working in print or broadcast media. Then there is the question of the domain name, or URL. Although the Bush camp preemptively bought dozens of domain names, including georgebush.com, over a year ago in an attempt to stave off such parodies, they were unable to cover all the bases. And thus on the unofficial site in question, it takes quite a while for the reader to realize that not all is what it appears to be. In the non-Internet world, on the other hand, if someone wanted...
What's crazy is that this statement should have been anything but boring. It was Rudenstine's first public effort to stave off pressure for a living wage. His tactic, however, was dull writing, designed to convince the reader that poverty on our campus is just a mundane, technical issue that literally can be left to the boss. Specifically, Rudenstine explained in 550 words that he has a committee looking into things...