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Ljuba Mikerevic, 34, walks from a bunker built of old cartridge boxes packed with dirt and covered with logs and sod in the middle of the Serb lines to his home every four days. It is about two miles down the steep hill past two military checkpoints, a dozen gutted homes and a file of soldiers walking in the other direction. Mikerevic is lean, with a dark mustache and hair that is turning prematurely gray. His rifle swings easily from his shoulder. At home his wife and two young girls, ages six and three, are waiting in the cramped apartment...
...question of how dinosaurs managed to take over the world. One thing is clear from his Argentine excavations: it happened quickly. In Eoraptor's day, dinosaurs were rare. Ten million years later, however -- the blink of an eye in geologic terms -- many reptiles and crocodilians were in steep decline, while dinosaurs were headed toward dominance...
...report a combined net membership loss of 6.2 million, to a current 22.2 million, since the mid-1960s. Despite its many problems, Catholicism has held its own. By Roof's survey, 70% of those raised as Jews have dropped out, a disastrous loss that coincides with low birthrates, a steep increase of intermarriage with non-Jews, and the slim odds that children from such marriages will end up practicing the faith...
...currently uninsured Americans in the regular health care system. It would control costs better than slapping artificial price limits on drug companies or doctors. Medical expertise is expensive for a reason. It takes a lot of effort, education, intelligence and money to become a doctor. Drug costs reflect the steep expense of research. Price controls would hurt the quality of care in America by reducing the incentive for innovation...
...good as his word, Clinton is pushing a four-year, $7.4 billion appropriation for national service, the plan that would permit students to finance their post-secondary education by working for up to two years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...