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...much political support over its plight. "The 'no-fly' zones aren't actually sanctioned by the U.N. -- they're unilaterally imposed by Britain and the U.S.," says Thompson. "But nobody's in a hurry to defend Iraq." Of course, all that could change with a downed pilot or a stray missile inflicting heavy civilian casualties...
...customers to use its long-distance service as well. Last week it unveiled Personal Network, which charges a flat $30 a month, plus 10[cents] a minute on all U.S. calls--long distance, wireless or calling card. It's good for heavy mobile users--if they don't stray too far. Unlike Digital One Rate, which eliminates "roaming" fees, the new plan costs 60[cents] a minute outside the local area...
...have these good germs been lurking all your life? In your intestines, especially the lower section called the colon, which harbors at least 400 species of bacteria. Which ones you have depends largely on your environment and diet. An abundance of good bacteria in the colon generally crowds out stray bad bacteria in your food. But if the bad outnumber the good--for example, after antibiotic treatment for a sinus or an ear infection, which kills normal intestinal germs as well--the result can be diarrhea...
...then, that the leafy tranquillity of Sterling's well-appointed Austin, Texas, home is shattered only by his two-year-old daughter Laura's careening through the living room like a stray electron? (Dad prefers "like a misrouted Internet packet.") "I like starting with a set of initial conditions and just extrapolating," he says. In this case, the initial conditions came courtesy of Mother Russia, whose meltdown Sterling covered for Wired back in 1993. "I was watching a huge 20th century superpower fall apart at the seams," he says. Extrapolating from Moscow to the U.S. was a simple matter...
...million Number of stray cats and dogs put down every year...