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...there was more to it than just minor inconveniences. With at least 50 deaths--in part due to the subsequent floods--Floyd was the deadliest tropical cyclone that has struck the United States since Agnes in 1972. In North Carolina, the state most severely hit, Floyd destroyed 6,500 homes and damaged another 50,000. More than 10,200 North Carolinians had to spend the nights following the hurricane in shelters...
...addition to regulating interactions between HMS researchers and businesses with which they are financially involved, the policy also seeks to ensure that an appropriate balance is struck between the time and energy researchers devote to Harvard and other duties...
...insidious and downright evil practices by anti-abortion extremists--such as killing providers and attacks on family members and clinics--have blocked women's right to abortion in practice if not in theory. Other less violent by equally damaging measures, such as arbitrary parental consent laws, must also be struck down. Gore must vocalize the measures he would take in order to stop these infringements...
...firmly endorsed China's entry into the WTO; Vice President Gore, mindful of Senator Bradley's challenge from the left, has waffled on the issue, hoping to keep the AFL-CIO on board for his nomination by promising at one point to renegotiate the terms of the China deal struck by his administration...
...coup for India and Bangladesh, the other stops on his tour. "President Clinton feels very strongly that it's important to maintain direct personal relationships with foreign leaders, particularly with leaders of countries as prone to crisis as Pakistan is," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "He was particularly struck by the effect his personal relationship with Nawaz had in allowing the U.S. to persuade Pakistan to withdraw from Kargil last July [after they'd crossed onto the Indian side of the disputed Kashmir border]. He clearly believes it's important to build such a relationship with the new leadership...