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...injected her with a drug called TPA, which dissolved the clot and quickly re-established normal blood flow to her brain. Phillips recovered so completely, in fact, that it seemed as if the stroke had never happened. She left the hospital after four days, her speech normal and any trace of paralysis gone...
...action behind the scenes borrowed from chaos theory, Dole's performance on the stump has not been much better. He spent the week doing town meetings before kindly audiences handpicked by local Republican leaders. "Listening to America," the campaign called it, without a trace of irony. The questions were such softballs that even Dole joked about the crowd's "objectivity...
...Members of the dining services search committee did ask me about students on the search committee in the aftermath of the leak; my attempt to trace it was as much an effort to be able to reassure the people who had raised the question with me as anything else," Lewis said...
...much as Americans desire instant gratification, officials handling the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 see no reason to satisfy that craving. Confirming last week the discovery of microscopic traces of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, on a piece of the plane's midsection, investigators moved one step closer to declaring that a bomb or a missile brought down the aircraft. But they caution that there are still many steps to go. A senior Justice Department official told TIME that the PETN, which is used in plastic explosives, is so far the only piece of forensic evidence the investigators...
...flight 800. Investigators are not ready to rule out mechanical failure as a cause of the crash, she reports, nor are they prepared to turn the case over to the FBI. The discovery has been more of a puzzle than a revelation. "What they have found is a tiny trace of PETN, a component of some kinds of plastic explosives, on a seat cushion," says Rivera. "Divers have recovered 60 percent of the wreckage from that section of the plane, and found no other traces of explosives. You would expect more traces to be there, so why haven't they...