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...hunters. At the other end of the President?s gravity-defying approval numbers is a band of perhaps 25 percent of Americans who firmly believe Clinton is a career criminal who should have been impeached and removed long ago. But when the New York Times went looking for this steel-jawed minority, it also found Clinton?s worst fear: a subset of those job-approval groupies that nevertheless finds the scandal -- and the President himself -- a wearisome embarrassment and wants him to resign. They may never see that day. But come February, a combination of the the virulent...
Blood simple! The FDA last week okayed Lasette, a portable laser device that enables diabetics to draw blood easily, with little or no pain. Many patients test their blood-glucose levels every day--in some cases 10 times--by pricking their skin with a razor-sharp steel lancet. By contrast Lasette sends a beam of light that vaporizes skin and creates a tiny hole so quickly--30 millionths of a second--it's barely felt. Cost...
...morning two months ago, 30 helmet-clad riot police wielding automatic rifles were arrayed in front of a hastily erected steel gate that barred the way into Karura Forest, on the outskirts of Nairobi. They stood guarding the site of what many Kenyans were calling an environmental outrage. More than a third of the 2,500-acre forest had been sold to land developers for a luxury housing project backed by President Daniel arap Moi, and 50 acres had already been cleared--less than half a mile away from Nairobi's world headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program...
After the professor solemnly left the stage in his dark suit, the Panazz (pan and jazz squished together) Players took over the hall. They are currently the leading steel band ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of pan music. In loose white pants and fluorescent tops, they were determined to bring a little of Trinidad and Tobago into the austere building. The fourteen member band includes a fifteen-year-old boy playing the six bass, and one woman who plays the double seconds. All the members share an amazing ability to work with most...
...ballet company lowered the audience's guard with a lovely--if highly traditional--opening dance from the opera Sanson and Dclilah, only to follow it with the first big surprise of the evening. "Souls of Steel," a raucous and percussive piece that electrified that Reiman Center, setting up an energy that lasted all night...