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Moscow's Kosovo mediation will likely survive Boris Yeltsin's latest putsch, but Russia's economy may wind up as "collateral damage." The surest sign of that Thursday was the ruble's resumption of its precipitous plunge, which the Yevgeny Primakov government, fired by Yeltsin on Wednesday, had managed to halt. And investors had good reason to be very afraid. "The IMF has made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will...
...Yeltsin is threatening to dissolve the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, and call new elections unless his new pick for prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, is approved. That looked unlikely Thursday, as legislators proceeded with moves to impeach Yeltsin, setting the stage for a showdown. While the constitution allows Yeltsin to dissolve the legislature if it rejects his nominee three times, it also forbids dissolution of the Duma while impeachment proceedings are under way. That may look like a constitutional crisis in a Western democracy, but in Boris Yeltsin's Russia lawyers and judges...
...Serbs showed "Wag the Dog" when the bombing began, and now Belgrade is venturing into creating its own made-for-TV events. The Yugoslav army staged a tiny "troop withdrawal" Thursday, moving about 120 soldiers out of Kosovo before assembled Western reporters at a border post. A senior officer then spun the reporters the line that the only thing slowing Yugoslav withdrawal was NATO's continued bombing. It was a lame stunt, but it pointed to the key obstacle to a Russian-mediated peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO...
What could be more reassuring to a young child than going to sleep with a light on? A new study to be published Thursday in the journal Nature suggests the common practice may not be such a good idea. Research from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Phildelphia indicates that children who regularly sleep with the light on before they reach the age of two exhibit a higher rate of developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia...
...private sales at gun shows to proceed without subjecting purchasers to mandatory background checks. The largely partisan 51-to-47 vote was not unexpected and served as a potent reminder of the lobbying strength of the National Rifle Association. More gun control votes are scheduled in the Senate into Thursday, and ?the expectation is that those will also break largely along traditional party lines,? says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson...