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...Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again, and the real prospect of more widespread killing looms. So what came of all that effort to make Macedonia the star pupil of the troubled western Balkans? Was the problem intractable? Or was the response inadequate...
...last week started a run in the U.K., has a loyal cadre of fans who tune in to watch homemade robots slug it out until one of them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first to employ the new SVG graphics and animation file format that lets...
...federal bodies to hold more power than national legislatures within 10 years. So for them, the argument is already settled. "For this younger generation, the E.U. is something taken for granted and not a cause," says Mark Leonard, 26, the director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a London think tank. "Our parents' generation experienced Europe pulling itself to pieces and lived with the constant threat of war. Now you don't need to focus on why the E.U. was set up in the first place...
...economic address billed by the White House flacks Monday as "major," Bush hit all the big themes. The economic slowdown - including the energy crisis and the stock market's tank-o-rama - was Clinton's fault, not his ("The trend is clear and the need for action is urgent") and all his tax-cut sales-pitching has not made things worse. "It's the President's job to look for warnings of economic trouble ahead and to heed them," Bush said. (Not that he didn't feel the need to point out the bright side for a change, saying...
...full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer prizewinning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor). And rather than spending the whole movie in the game's traditional green tank top and khaki shorts, Jolie goes through 13 costume changes, including an Eskimo parka and a monk's robe. While sweating it out on the steamy, mosquito-ridden Angkor Wat temple set in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jolie kept her irreverent sense of fun. "In some ways, it's a good...