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...Stung by those setbacks, Baghdad turned to a third means of joining the nuclear club: the enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade level in gas centrifuges. The centrifuges take uranium-bearing ore or a mixture called yellowcake and separate out the 3% of uranium 235, which is fissionable, from the 97% of uranium 238, which is not. Iraq is known to possess 250 tons of yellowcake, most of it purchased in the 1970s from Brazil, China and Niger. In recent years the country has also begun producing its own yellowcake from mines in northern Iraq...
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt is a defender of Joe Six-Pack, who would have been stung by a Republican proposal to raise the excise tax on beer to 32 cents a pack. But Gephardt has another reason to be one of the boys: Anheuser- Busch Co. headquarters are in his St. Louis district. Gephardt bellied up to the task of holding the beer tax to 16 cents per six-pack. He has received $12,850 from beer industry PACs...
...humble onion that stung taste buds and left telltale traces on the breath is being eclipsed by new, less pungent breeds. They include such varieties as the 1015 out of Texas, the Imperial Sweet (California) and the Maui (Hawaii). Never mind that some of these hybrids pack all the consistency and taste of an unripe cantaloupe; never mind that they may serve to decorate a salad but will do nothing to spice up a stew. The National Onion Association reports that, thanks largely to the new designer hybrids, consumers are no longer holding their noses and that U.S. consumption...
Harvard, of course, was merely one of many medical schools nationwide looking to scrutinize the outside financial dealings of its doctors, with an eye to whether those dealings were compromising the integrity of research. And Harvard had particular reason to worry, for it was stung by a well-publicized conflict-of-interest controversy just last year...
Landsbergis said he would "carefully study" the letter, but he could hardly fail to read it as support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's demands that the Baltic republic consent to an orderly secession by Moscow's rules. Landsbergis had already been stung by George Bush's decision not to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union -- a decision the Lithuanian leader likened to the appeasement of Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference. The comparison was farfetched, since Bush was counseling Lithuania to take a less confrontational course toward independence, not to surrender to a predatory totalitarian...